One of the powers of the National Labor Inspectorate (Państwowa Inspekcja Pracy) is to control foreign employers posting employees to Poland as part of the provision of services. Results of the inspection show that in many cases foreign employers do not know at all about the special obligations imposed on them by Polish law.
Completion accounts have traditionally been favoured as the mechanism under which a buyer and seller adjust the purchase price for a UK target company.
The International Chamber of Commerce has issued INCOTERMS® 2020 (short for International Commercial Terms) to be effective January 1, 2020. INCOTERMS 2020 provides an updated template and standardized set of definitions for the terms most commonly used in international commercial transactions (and some that are less common but are used for specific purposes).
This Report provides an overview on top trade policy priorities and challenges in several WLG member jurisdictions, outlining the overall approach country-by-country on international trade and specifying concrete policy measures applied such as new tariffs, sanctions and FDI control.
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (“AfCFTA”) is by far one of the most ambitious economic steps that Africa has ever taken as a Continent. The Agreement opens up doors to a market of 1.2 billion people (estimated by the African Union to increase to 2.5 billion by 2050) with a combined GDP estimated by the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) at $2.5 trillion and a combined consumer and business spending equally estimated by the IMF at more than $4 trillion.
Significant changes are underway to Canadian trademark law and practice this year with an overhaul to legislation taking effect on June 17, 2019. Canada will accede to the Madrid Protocol, Nice Classification and Singapore Treaty, and there will be significant amendments to its Trademarks Act. These changes will impact filing, prosecution and maintenance, as well as trademark enforcement. Brand owners are advised to review their trademark portfolios and protection strategy in Canada in light of these developments. In particular, there might be significant cost savings to filing or renewing marks before the changes come into force.
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