Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled Poland introduces temporary administration of sanctioned entities and asset takeovers (legislation update) on 30 August 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled Poland plans temporary administration of sanctioned entities and asset takeovers (legislation update) on 5 July 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Through the EU Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency of 20 June 2019 (EUR 2019/1023, “Directive”), the European Union has imposed an obligation on its member states to offer a more attractive and flexible restructuring scheme in their respective local law. The initial deadline to do so had been 17 July 2021. Only a handful of countries (most notably Germany and The Netherlands) had implemented the Directive within the initial deadline, whilst the other countries made use of the possibility to ask for a one year extension.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled Poland introduces sanctions against Russia and Belarus on 26 April 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled “Russia imposes a ban on foreign aircraft flights from 36 states” on 1 March 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Recent updates and developments on the Polish employment law.
This HR alert features the following: Polish Deal and employment law, Whistleblowers, Significant changes to immigration laws, Opinion of labour inspection on vaccination of employees, New regulations concerning work-life balance.
In March 2021, the EU approved new reporting rules in a directive known as DAC7. The directive will require the operators of online platforms for the sale of goods and certain services, to collect, verify and share data on their sellers and their transactions concluded on the online platform. EU member states have until 31 December 2022 to implement DAC7 into national law. Certain platform operators will become a reporting platform and will need to start collecting and verifying data points in compliance with the DAC7 reporting requirements. The collected data points must be reported to the tax authorities of the relevant EU member state annually.
For a long time in Poland, governmental bodies did not comment on the legal framework applicable to cooperation with influencers, such as the proper tagging of posts or the liability for sponsored content. The principles of cooperation could only be assessed on the basis of general interpretations of the existing legal regulations. However, in recent weeks the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection has taken steps to organize the sponsored online content market, as it found that much of the commercial content on influencer profiles on social media is either not marked as advertising at all or is insufficiently marked.
On 30 June 2021, the largest amendment to the Act of 12 May 2011 on Reimbursement of Medicinal Products, Foodstuffs Intended for Particular Nutritional Uses and Medical Devices (“Reimbursement Law”) was published for public consultations until the end of August (“Draft”). The Draft is intended to enter into force within three months of its publication; however, it is difficult to predict how long the legislation process will last.