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UKRAINIAN LAWS IN WARTIME: Guide for International and Domestic Businesses, 6th Edition

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Baker McKenzie is pleased to submit its next, the sixth edition of Ukrainian Laws in Wartime: Guide for International and Domestic Businesses, a brief overview of the key features of wartime legislation.

This issue contains updated responses to the most common questions raised and considered by international and Ukrainian businesses these days in the following practice areas:
• Martial Law and Special Legislation
• Employment and Migration
• Financial Arrangements and Financial Sector
• Corporate
• Tax and Customs Regime
• Real Estate
• Work of State Courts and Arbitration Tribunals
• Enforcement Proceedings
• Intellectual Property
• Antitrust and Competition
• Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare

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In Sanctions

United States: OFAC Issues New General Licenses Related to Russia-Related New Investment Prohibition and Updates FAQs

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Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled OFAC Issues New General Licenses Related to Russia-Related New Investment Prohibition and Updates FAQs on 27 July 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.

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International: Global Tax Policy video series – UK perspectives on Pillar Two

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In this newest episode of Baker McKenzie’s Global Tax Policy Video Series, Kate Alexander, Miles Humphries and Nick Evans discuss recent UK perspectives on Pillar Two. They also discuss what UK businesses are doing now to prepare for implementation of the proposed Pillar Two changes, despite a welcome delay to the UK’s implementation schedule.

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In Employment

United Kingdom: Employment Rights – Is 2022 the year of enforcement? (Video Chat)

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The Baker McKenzie London Employment team is delighted to welcome you back to our virtual mini-series, “Employment Rights: is 2022 the year of enforcement?”, with episode four, which is part two of our holiday pay focus during which we’ve explored key considerations for employers who are managing the thorny issue of holiday pay. This episode builds on that discussion with analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Harpur Trust v Brazel case, which is likely to require many employers to change the way they calculate holiday pay for atypical workers such as casual, bank and zero hours staff (amongst others).

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Germany: The government draft of the Whistleblower Protection Act

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The EU Whistleblower Directive has been in force since 16 December 2019, and was to be implemented in national law by 17 December 2021. On 27 July 2022, the German Federal Cabinet approved a government draft of the Whistleblower Protection Act, so that — with considerable delay — the further legislative process has been initiated.

In Product Regulation & Liability

Italy: New guidelines on telemedicine in home-care

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With Decree dated 29 April 2022, published in the Official Gazette on 24 May 2022, the Ministry of Health approved the organizational guidelines on the “Digital model for the implementation of home-care”. The guidelines set out a reference model for the implementation of various telemedicine services in the home-care setting, through the identification of innovative processes for taking care of patients at home and the enhancement of multi-professional and multidisciplinary collaboration between the various professionals.

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In Product Regulation & Liability

Italy: New template for clinical trial agreements

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On 31 May 2022, the National Coordination Centre of Ethics Committees updated the templates for the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products and clinical investigations on medical devices that identify the minimum content of the agreement between sponsors/CROs and clinical sites to ensure the uniformity of administrative, economic and insurance aspects.

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Italy: The Tuscany Administrative Court on the difference between “most recently marketed” and “latest generation” medical devices

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With judgment No. 705 of 21 May 2022, the Administrative Court of the Tuscany Region upheld the complaint against the decision to award a tender for a framework agreement for the supply of coronary stents to the regional health service, under which tenderers were required to offer the “most recently marketed” device. In his regard, the plaintiff complained that the successful tenderer offered a product that was on the market for years, although the same product was in line with the technical requirements set out in the tender specifications.

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