On 14 February 2019, in view of the forty-fourth meeting of the Council of Minister, the Italian government approved the implementation of (i) EU regulation 1257/2012 and Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, and (ii) new EU trademark regulation. Obtaining a unitary patent, valid in all 26 EU Member States, will be possible by submitting…
On 12 February 2019, the European Data Protection Board published Guidelines 1/2019 on Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Bodies under Regulation 2016/679. Their scope is to provide practical guidance and interpretative assistance in relation to the drafting and monitoring of codes of conduct. The guidelines will help to clarify the procedures and the rules involved…
On 14 February 2019, the new Insolvency Code was published in the Official Gazette (D. Lgs. 12 of January 2019, n. 14), to replace the Insolvency Law of 16 March 1942, n. 267. The new Insolvency Code will come into force on 15th august 2020 (with the exception of the amendments to the Italian Civil…