Please find below a brief analysis on the Law 3/2020, of September 18, on procedural and organizational measures to deal with COVID-19 in the area of the Administration of Justice, which repeals the Royal Decree 16/2020, of April 28, validating many of the measures contained in said Royal Decree, extending the period of application of some of them and introducing some relevant novelties in procedural and bankruptcy matters.
On September 18, 2020, the European Commission published the report "Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)" drafted by a Group of Independent Experts (hereinafter the "Report"), which contains 20 recommendations on issues raised by connected and automated vehicles (hereinafter, “CAV”).
Ramón y Cajal Abogado has advised both Atresmedia and Telefónica on the antitrust and corporate aspects of the creation of the joint venture BUENDÍA ESTUDIOS, which aims to become a reference studio in the creation and production of audiovisual content in Spanish. The transaction was unconditionally cleared by the European Commission on 17 June 2020.
We have prepared a summary about the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2020, of May 5, which approves the consolidated text of the new Spanish Insolvency Law and its relationship with the insolvency matters regulated by Royal Decree-Law 16/2020, of April 28, of procedural and organizational measures to deal with COVID-19 in the Spanish Justice Administration.
Please find below a summary of the main decisions taken by the Council of Ministers and contained in the Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, of 31 March, adopting additional urgent measures in the social and economic areas to deal with COVID-19.
We have prepared a summary about the liquidity measures set out in Spanish Royal Decree-law 8/2020 of 17 march on urgent extraordinary measures to address the economic and social impact of COVID-19.
We have prepared a summary of the impact of Royal Decree 463/2020, dated march 14, and Royal Decree-law 8/2020, dated march 17, on procedural deadlines, statute of limitations and expiration in the civil and insolvency areas
The Spanish Council of Ministers, in its extraordinary session held on March 14, 2020, has declared, by Royal Decree, the state of alarm to face the international pandemic caused by COVID-19, which has placed Spain in a "health emergency" situation derived from the "very high number of affected citizens" and the "extraordinary risk to their rights".
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We have prepared a summary of the main decisions taken by the Council of Ministers and contained in the Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, dated March 17, of urgent and extraordinary measures to address the economic and social impact of COVID-19.
On November, 8, the Spanish Data Protection Agency issued its new Guidance on the Use of Cookies which updates the document published in 2013. For this reason, Ramón y Cajal Abogados has prepared a newsletter in which analyzed the key issues included in this document, as well as the main sanctions imposed by the AEPD in relation to the use of cookies from 2015 to the present day.
The prestigious publisher Lexology Getting The Deal Through has just released the third edition of its Private Antitrust Litigation guide, in which our firm has once again collaborated. The Spanish jurisdiction chapter has been prepared by our partners Pedro Suárez and Antonio de Mariano and our associate Javier Pérez Fernández.
This guide provides practical answers to both procedural and substantive issues raised by competition law claims (also known as “private enforcement”), such as cartels or abuses of dominance, including claims for damages. In the specific case of Spain, this area is in full legislative and jurisprudential development, especially as a result of the recent transposition of Directive 2014/104/EU (the Damage Directive), and its application remains particularly complex and novel for lawyers, judges and economists. Spain is nevertheless beginning to position itself as a reference jurisdiction at European level, with an increasing number of claims being litigated here.
After the first year of application of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR”), most supervisory authorities have already impose
