The New Criminal Code became the first piece of legislation passed into Law in 2023 and was promulgated on 2 January as Law No. 1 of 2023. In the next three years, the New Criminal Code will replace the 100-year old criminal code currently in place. The New Criminal Code changes the landscape of the penal code in the field of digital information, bribery and corruption, and money laundering related crimes.
On 6 January 2023, the European Commission published a draft amending act extending transitional provisions under the EU Medical Devices Regulation. The Proposal extends the validity of certificates issued under the previous Directives (based on certain conditions), giving manufacturers more time to obtain MDR-compliant certificates.
Pursuant to Resolution MPF-SI No. 8/22, dated 27 December 2022, the district attorney of the Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) of the province of Buenos Aires created the Specialized Prosecutor Unit for the Investigation of Cybercrime (UFECI), which will have jurisdiction throughout the judicial department of San Isidro (composed of the localities of Pilar, San Fernando, San Isidro, Tigre and Vicente López). The UFECI was created to address, in a more efficient and successful way, investigations related to highly complex criminal maneuvers.
A new EU-level recommendation paper sets out wide-ranging recommendations for sponsors of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). The Paper is great news for sponsors facing an array of grey areas and gaps in regulatory guidance around DCTs. It provides guidance on common issues in designing and implementing DCTs: from documenting the delegation of tasks to digital service providers, to obtaining e-consents and how investigators should manage new streams of incoming data. The recommendations are not legally binding, but the Paper nevertheless represents a vital step towards a common basis for implementing DCTs across the EU.
The Government of Indonesia issued Government Regulation in lieu of Law No. 2 of 2022 on Job Creation on 30 December 2022 (“Job Creation GRL”). This opens the second act of the Omnibus Law following the scrutiny by the Constitutional Court of the formalities in the creation of the original Job Creation Law which was issued in 2020. Content-wise, the 1,117-page Job Creation GRL is a non-identical twin sibling of the original Job Creation Law with substantive changes on halal certification, employment, taxation, and regional government as well as some non-substantive changes in other sectors such as water resources.
An extensive amendment to the Act on Consumer Protection and the Civil Code came into effect on 6 January 2023. In this article we focus on changes introduced by the amendment in relation to liability for defects and guarantee.
The soon-to-be enacted P2SK Law introduces “financing service businesses” as a new umbrella term for several categories of financing services, covering the businesses of finance companies (multifinance), venture capital companies, infrastructure financing companies, IT-based collective funding service providers (peer-to-peer lending platforms), and pawnbroker companies.
Decision No. 908 of the Commission of the Andean Community was published in the Official Journal of the Cartagena Agreement N° 5097 on 29 December 2022. Through Decision 908, the provisions of Decision 706 (Harmonization of legislation on household hygiene products and absorbent personal hygiene products) have been amended, in the sense of facilitating imports of these products from third countries.
The deadline that allows the use of adhesives or stickers to attach octagonal advertising warnings on imported processed foods and non-alcoholic beverages (imported foods) in accordance with the healthy eating framework was on 31 December 2022. In the absence of a new extension allowing the use of stickers to date, a number of questions arise, which are addressed in this alert.
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