A new amendment to the Civil Code on a commercial proxy came into force and effect on 1 January 2017. The amendment pertains to the so-called joint irregular proxy. The aforementioned proxy has been known and used in practice by the entrepreneurs for many years,…
Personal copyright of the author – as well as the author’s property rights – are the author’s rights arising upon the completion of the work piece. The author may in no way waive or transfer these rights nor do these rights expire upon the author’s…
Neither the provisions of the Civil Code nor the provisions of the Act of 30 May 2014 on Consumer Rights explicitly require a consumer returning the goods or making a complaint to present a receipt/or an invoice as a proof of purchase. However, in practice,…
New amendment to the Act of 3 October 2008 on providing information on the environment and environmental protection, public participation in the environmental protection and environment impact assessments, adopted by the Parliament last year, will come into force and effect on 1 January 2017. The…
Musical band members often marginalize the issue of a legal form of their artistic business activity. Usually their artistic activity is based on civil law contracts, which only regulate external relations of the band. Musical bands tend not to enter into agreements which would regulate…
Works on a draft bill on the transformation of joint perpetual usufruct to land for residential purposes into co-ownership are currently pending. Pursuant to the bill, an apartment block dweller or a tenement house dweller, who is a holder of joint perpetual usufruct, by virtue…
Debts of an entrepreneur, which have accrued prior to the opening of restructuring proceedings are commonly thought to be subject of restructuring. Basically, it is true, however, there are a number of exceptions. One of them are the employee social security contributions, which failed to…
Compensation proceedings take a long time and recently have also become expensive. Irrespectively of the expenses incurred for the valuation surveys to prove the value of real estate claimed in compensation proceedings, drawn up by the contracted appraisers or irrespectively of the expenses incurred for…