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Free-riding allowed? - BGH declares Booking.com's ‘narrow most favored nation clause’ illegal
Hotel booking portals such as Booking.com offer hotel customers direct bookings. To this end, the hotel portal operators conclude contracts with the hotels for the brokerage of hotel bookings in…
Klimaklage Urgenda gegen Niederlande
Eine der bemerkenswertesten Klimaklagen stammt aus den Niederlanden. Die Stiftung Urgenda hatte mit fast 900 Nebenklägern 2013 eine dort zulässige „Gemeinwohlklage“ gegen den Staat erhoben. Die…
Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance amended and extended
On 23 June 2021, the draft bill of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on the new SARS-CoV-2 Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance (SARS-CoV-2-Arbeitsschutzverordnung) was adopted.…
Challenges in dealing with cross-border cartel cases – why is this so relevant right now?
While currently the coronavirus case numbers fortunately are decreasing in many countries such as Germany, competition authorities might soon restart to increasingly conduct unannounced inspections…
Amendment of the EEG 2021 - New energy for the expansion of photovoltaics in Germany?
The last amendment to the EEG 2021 has barely been in force for half a year, yet the German legislator has once again amended key provisions in the EEG 2021 that relate to…
Change of case law in insolvency avoidance law: German Federal Court of Justice requires stronger weighting of the factual circumstances to justify a challenge of transactions based on intent
With the challenge of transactions in insolvency proceedings, asset transfers of all kinds - including justified payments by a debtor to a creditor - are reversed. In principle, this is intended to…
Digitising personnel files
As digitalisation in the working environment strongly increases and remote working is on the rise, personnel files are also increasingly being maintained in a digital format. This offers significant…
Merger control of Venture Capital investments
Due to the 10th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen, following “ARC”), which entered into force at the beginning of this year (see…
Das Transparenzregister: Für Unternehmen gelten neue Meldepflichten
Der Gesetzgeber geht davon aus, dass die Anzahl der mitteilungspflichtigen Unternehmen damit auf 2,3 Mio. ansteigt. Während bisher oftmals die Mitteilungsfiktion galt, wonach die Eintragung in ein…
Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance extended
The Federal Cabinet has approved the extension and amendment of the Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance. Basic tried and tested occupational safety measures will be retained - such as the…