RoschierRaidla NEWS (July - August 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 July – August 2009 newsletters are the following:

ESTONIA

• Employment Contracts Act
• Other Recent Legislative Developments

• Renewed Regulation for Mergers of Financial Institutions
• New Ports Act Adopted
• Structural Assistance Act Amended
• Advertising Act Specified
• Natural Gas Act and District Heating Act Amended
• Electronic Communications Act Specified
• State Assets Act Amended
• Hunting Act Supplemented

LATVIA

• Law on Public Procurement Amended
• Public Private Partnership Law Finally Passed

LITHUANIA

• Draft Law on Real Estate Brokers
• Draft Law on Postponement of Tax Payment Terms for Limited Liability Companies
• Recent Draft Amendments of the Law on Public Procurement Aims to Bring More Transparency into Public Procurement Procedure
• The Minister of Economy Approved First Code of Conduct for Bankruptcy Administrators
• An Initiative to Simplify the Current Tax Dispute Settlement Procedure
• Recent Draft Law on Electricity – Big Step Towards Greater Liberalization of the Electricity Market
• Belarus: New Incentives for Investors

FINLAND

• Implementation of the Shareholders’ Rights Directive in Finland

SWEDEN

• IPRED – New Measures for IPR Enforcement in Sweden

• July – August 2009 issue - please click HERE
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