The Montenegrin antitrust authority, the Agency for Protection of Competition of Montenegro (“Agency“), announced that the Higher Misdemeanour Court of Montenegro imposed on 10 July 2018 a fine in the amount of EUR 27,249.54 on the Montenegrin port operator “Luka Kotor” A.D. (“Luka Kotor“) for abuse of dominant position that had been established by the […]
The validity of local conditions, one of the initial and most important documents in the permitting process showing what investor can build on certain piece of land, is to be extended from one to two years. The deadline to commence work under construction permit is also to be extended from two to three years from the […]
BDK Advokati head of data protection practice, Bogdan Ivanišević, held a session on 20 August on the topic “GDPR and Serbian media” for participants in the project named “Strengthening Media Systems”. The event was hosted by ICT Hub, in its Belgrade office. ICT Hub in partnership with USAID has launched media accelerator aiming to reinforce […]
Earlier this week Serbian public got an opportunity to acquaint itself with the general comments and detailed comments by the European Commission (EC) of the Serbian government’s draft data protection law. The purpose of the EC’s comments, written in April 2018, was to assist the government to create a decent bill. At the same time, […]
US-based Nutanix has signed definitive agreements to buy US-based company Mainframe2 Inc, known as Frame. BDK Advokati is proud to have been a part of the legal team led by Orrick that advised Frame on this deal. Frame is a cloud-based Windows desktop and application delivery. It was founded in 2012 in US by Serbian […]
In a Serbia chapter authored for Getting the Deal Through: Telecoms and Media (July 2018), BDK Advokati gave overview of the country’s regulatory framework concerning telecoms and media. The analysis was authored by Bogdan Ivanišević, Pablo Perez Laya and Zorana Brujić. Telecoms In the summary of the regulatory framework for the telecoms sector in Serbia, […]
In a decision based directly on the GDPR, a German court recently prohibited collection of broad categories of personal data during the process of registration of internet domain names. If the decision portends the way in which courts in Europe will handle the issue, availability of the data regarding the holders of internet domain names […]
BDK Advokati is the first law firm in the Serbian market to adopt Luminance artificial intelligence technology. BDK will use Luminance to enhance its services concerning due diligence exercises across diverse spectrum of legal practices. BDK firmly believes that artificial intelligence will play a crucial role in legal service industry in the future. The new technology […]
The second EU-Western Balkans Summit took place in Sofia on 17 May 2018, bringing together the heads of state or government from EU Member States and the leaders from the six Western Balkans countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo. The event resulted in the adoption of […]
