Responding to the request by the German Federal Administrative Court, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) gave on 5 June 2018 its preliminary ruling in the proceedings between Schleswig-Holstein’s data protection authority (“ULD”) and a private educational company (“Wirtschaftsakademie”). The judgment, in the case C-210/16, sheds light on who is the data controller […]
Only three months are left until the latest amendments to the Serbian Companies’ Act become applicable. The amendments bring about many changes to the corporate governance rules that the companies will have to take into account when organizing their affairs in the future. Some of the amendments may prompt the companies to amend their memorandums […]
Partner Milan Dakić wrote an interesting piece on the statutory possibilities for private investors to actively participate in the development of public infrastructure such as roads, electricity or sewerage networks outside of PPP and public procurement frameworks. Such public-private cooperation can be regulated by an agreement between an investor and a local municipality. Read full […]
Bogdan Ivanišević, partner and head of BDK’s Intellectual Property practice, and Zorana Brujić, associate, authored an article on proving bad faith in trademark cases, for ECTA Daily, a bulletin published during ECTA’s 37th Annual Conference held in Athens from 13-16 June 2018. In their article, Bogdan and Zorana analyzed the criteria laid down by the E.U. Court […]
The long-awaited financial collateral legislation in Serbia, the Financial Collateral Act, has been finally adopted and will become applicable on 1 January 2019. Within its narrow scope of application, the legislation incorporates the main features of the EU Directive on financial collateral arrangements (2002/47/EC). We have reported on those features in November 2016 in a newsletter in […]
BDK Advokati in cooperation with AmCham Montenegro hosted today an info session on “Competition law: Restrictive agreements and practices“. The member-companies of AmCham Montenegro and our clients and partners had the opportunity to learn from, and discuss with, Bisera Andrijašević, the member of our regional competition law team, how to recognize and assess potentially dangerous horizontal […]
The Serbian Commission for the Protection of Competition has published on 29 May 2018 the results of the first phase of its retail sector inquiry, commenced one year ago. The first round of the inquiry included indicators of the development of the retail market, the market structure and an overview of the most important market […]
BDK Advokati has contributed a Serbia chapter to Copyright 2018, one of the Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guides. The copyright guide includes thirteen country-specific chapters and offers a comprehensive overview of the developments in the constantly evolving field of copyright. The guide aims at providing copyright practitioners with some initial tools to deal with the copyright-related […]
