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27 October 2017

Negativzinsen beim Kreditvertrag

DERZEITIGER DISKUSSIONSSTAND. Die Frage, wie Zinsen – berechnet aus einem Referenzzinssatz wie z.B. EURIBOR und Marge – in bestehenden Kreditverhältnissen zu interpretieren sind, wird derzeit heftig diskutiert. Dies insbesondere dann, wenn diese Verträge keine Regelung dahingehend enthalten, was bei einem negativen Indikator gelten soll. Im Raum stehen dabei im Wesentlichen zwei Szenarien. Alternative 1: der negative Referenzzinssatz wird bei null oder nahezu null "eingefroren", d.h. die Marge bleibt voll erhalten. Alternative 2: der negative Referenzzinssatz schlägt durch und reduziert (bei entsprechend niedrigem Wert) die Marge bzw. könnte dazu führen, dass sich der gesamte Sollzinssatz ins Negative dreht und damit der Fall eintritt, dass der Kreditgeber dem Kreditnehmer dieses negative Ergebnis gutzuschreiben hätte. (...)...

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27 October 2017

Bulgaria: Investment incentives under the 2014-2020 regional aid scheme

Following more than a year of discussions after the new General Block Exemption Regulation 651/2014 ("GBER") entered into force on 1 July 2014, in October the Bulgarian Council of Ministers has adopted amendments to the Implementation Regulation to the Bulgarian Investments Promotion Act ("IRIPA"). These set out the investment incentives that will be provided within the scope of regional aid for the period to 2020....

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27 October 2017

A grand chamber of the Polish supreme administrative court ruled on taxable revenue derived from an asset contribution to a capital company.

The written justification of the Polish Supreme Administrative court's ruling on taxable revenue derived from an in-kind contribution in exchange for shares of a nominal value lower than the fair market value of the contributed asset has recently been published. The oral justification of the ruling was published on 20. July 2015....

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27 October 2017

The end of the Madrid agreement

The last of the 95 members of the Madrid System, signatory only to the Madrid Agreement but not to the Madrid Protocol, has acceded to the latter. Thus, the Madrid System is now transformed into a One Treaty System with Algeria being the last member....

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27 October 2017

National bank of Ukraine takes actions to prevent conversion of borrowings

The National Bank of Ukraine (the "NBU") has taken actions to prevent the conversion of borrowings extended by Ukraine-based lenders to cross-border borrowings. This was announced by the top NBU official as the primary purpose of the new NBU regulation, no.551 of 20 August 2015 (the "Regulation") which supplements regulation no. 354 of 3 June 2015). However, the wording of the Regulation seems to be somewhat far-reaching and concerns the rights of the foreign lenders under cross-border borrowings extended to Ukrainian residents....

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27 October 2017

Novi zakon o radu

Novi Zakon o radu koji je Parlament Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine nedavno usvojio, objavljen u Službenim novinama FBIH br. 62/15 dana 12. avgusta 2015. godine, stupio je na snagu danas, 20. avgusta 2015. godine....

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27 October 2017

New labour law

A new Labour Law recently adopted by the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and published on 12 August 2015 in the Official Gazette of FBiH no. 62/15, came into force today on 20 August 2015....

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27 October 2017

Reduction of time period for expedited state registration of proprietary rights to real estate and their encumbrances

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (the "CMU") has introduced new reduced time terms for the expedited state registration of proprietary rights to real estate and their encumbrances. As soon as the new rules become effective, the state registration of proprietary rights to real estate will be performed within five, three or one business day(s) or even within two hours from the moment of acceptance of an application, and subject to different amounts of fees payable for such expedited service. Previously, the expedited registration against a higher registration fee could be possible only within three business days from the moment of registration of the application....

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27 October 2017

НОВЕ ОБМЕЖЕННЯ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОГО БАНКУ УКРАЇНИ ЗАБОРОНЯЄ ВІДСТУПЛЕННЯ КРЕДИТІВ ВІД НЕРЕЗИДЕНТІВ

Національний банк України (далі – НБУ) вжив заходів з метою запобігання переведенню внутрішніх боргових зобов’язань резидентів за кредитами у зовнішні зобов’язання, відповідно до пояснень одного з високопосадовців НБУ, як основної мети прийняття постанови Правління НБУ № 551 від 20 серпня 2015 року (далі - Постанова), якою вносяться зміни до постанови НБУ № 354 від 3 червня 2015 року. В той же час, положення Постанови мають біль широке застосування та передусім обмежують права іноземних позикодавців за наданими українським позичальникам кредитами....

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27 October 2017

New rules regulating natural gas trading in Bulgaria

On 4 August 2015 the new Natural Gas Market Rules ('Gas Market Rules') were published in the State Gazette (SG, No 59/2015) after the Bulgarian energy Regulator ('EWRC') took final decision for their adoption on 7 July 2015. The new Rules come into force after more than a year' discussion how the current natural gas trading rules should be revised to answer the requirements of the developing Bulgarian natural gas market. The new Rules repeal entirely the existing Natural Gas Market Rules adopted in 2007 and become effective as of the date of their publication in State Gazette....

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27 October 2017

Bearbeitungsgebühren beim Kreditvertrag

ZULÄSSIGKEIT VON BEARBEITUNGSGEBÜHREN BEIM KREDITVERTRAG. Jüngst wurden zwei Artikel publiziert, die sich mit der Zulässigkeit der Vereinbarung von Bearbeitungsgebühren beim Kreditvertrag beschäftigen (Georg Graf, Zur Zulässigkeit der Vereinbarung einer Bearbeitungsgebühr beim Kreditvertrag in ÖJZ 2015/43 und Raimund Bollenberger, Zulässigkeit von einmaligen Bearbeitungsentgelten beim Kreditvertrag in ÖBA 2015, 396). Während die beiden Autoren die Vereinbarung von Bearbeitungsgebühren für zulässig erachten und auch für die in Deutschland umstrittene Judikatur keine entsprechende Basis in Österreich sehen, teilt die kurze Zeit später ergangene erstgerichtliche Entscheidung des LG Innsbruck zu 818 41 Cg 20/15g diese Meinung nicht. Eine weitere Entscheidung des LG St. Pölten zu 3 Cg 7/15 w - 9 erteilt der Bearbeitungsgebühr aus anderen Gründen eine Absage....

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27 October 2017

Romania: Recent enactments and amendments in the field of commercial law

1. Enactment of Law No. 120/2015 on providing incentives for individual investors – business angels On 17 July 2015, Law no. 120/2015 on the stimulation of individual investors/business angels (the “Law”) entered into force, providing certain fiscal deductions to be granted to natural persons investors (so-called "business angels") for their investments in micro and small enterprises, which cumulatively meet the following conditions:...

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