RoschierRaidla NEWS (May - June 2009)

The RoschierRaidla News is a bimonthly e-newsletter jointly published by Roschier in Finland and in Sweden and Raidla Lejins & Norcous in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania covering the latest legal developments in the five jurisdictions.

• Please read the legal updates from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden HERE

The main themes covered in May – June 2009 newsletter are the following:

• Financial Stimulus Measures Introduced
• Other Recent Legislative Developments

• Gambling Tax Act
• Biocides Act
• Provisions of Building Act Specified
• Additions to Planning Act
• Accounting Act Amended
• State Assets Act Supplemented
• Environmental Charges Act Specified
• Funded Pensions Act and Social Tax Act Amended
• New Provisions in Support of Enterprise Act
• Aliens Act Amended
• Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks Ratified
• Unemployment Insurance Premium Rates Increased

• New Restrictions on Mortgage Lending Imposed
• Rights to Impose Interim Measures in Consumer Rights Cases
• Law on Taxes and Duties Amended

• Transposition of Directive 2007/44/EC into the Law of the Republic of Lithuania
• Law on Amendment and Supplement to the Competition Law of the Republic of Lithuania
• Recommendations for Amendment to the Terms and Conditions of Public Procurement and Sale Agreements

FINLAND and SWEDEN

• Alternative Investment Funds - New Regulation in the Pipeline

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• May – June 2009 issue - please click HERE
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