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.
Collections Legal publishes the English version of the article previously published in the El País newspaper, in which our partner, Rafael Mateu de Ros, evaluates the ruling from a Californian judge permitting the Thyssen museum to keep the Nazi stolen ‘Rue St. Honore, apres midi, effet de plume’ by Pissarro (link)
Our partner, Andrés Mas, and our lawyer Lucía García are the co-authors of the chapter dedicated to Spanish Jurisdiction in the 2019 edition of the international guide to "Mergers & Acquisitions", published each year by ICLG (International comparative legal guide). Click here to access the content.
To celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Prado Museum, Ramon y Cajal Abogados is sponsororing the "Una pintura para una nación. El fusilamiento de Torrijos" exhibition, by Antonio Gisbert. This work of art was entrusted to the Prado by the Spanish State during the times of the Sagasta Liberal Government in order to uphold the noble and dignified memory of the Liberal Politician José María Torrijos (1791-1831) and of his colleagues, who were executed by Fernando VII. It is one of the most recognised paintings in the last time period of Spanish History.
Action Sport Soc. Coop, ARL (Action Sport), a distributor of Nike products based in Italy, brought a claim in the Netherlands against Nike European Operations Netherlands BV (Nike) on the grounds that the latter had wrongly terminated its distribution contract on 28 December 2015. Nike opposed this claim, holding that its termination had indeed been lawful. Particularly, it contended that Action Sport had been reselling, without its consent, Nike products through the Amazon platform, which was not a member of Nike’s selective distribution system.
Finally, after more than four years of work, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was published May 4 in the Official Journal of the European Union (“OJEU”). As indicated in its Article 99, the new regulation will be applicable since May 25, 2018.
