Publications - Criminal Law and Internal Investigations
Chile: Publication of Law No. 21.592, which establishes a whistleblower protection statute
The law conceives access to protection as a right of any whistleblower who reports irregularities within organisations and guarantees their personal integrity and that of their property, as well as the preservation of their living and working…
Digital Services Act: The European Commission proposes a new regulatory framework for the Internet
The European Commission has just published its proposal to regulate digital services in two texts which even it considers ambitious: the Proposal for a Regulation on Digital Markets (analyzed here) and the Proposal on a…
A new standard in tax compliance
Article by José Vicente Iglesias, partner at Tax Department of Garrigues in Madrid ('Expansión').
Countdown to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
On May 25 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became mandatory, having been published in the Official Journal of the European Union three weeks earlier. The regulation established a term of two years within which members states and…
The new preliminary bill means greater protection for business secrets
Business secrets are one of the most important intangible assets of companies, particularly in the context of the digital economy. Until now, however, the legal protection afforded them was fairly limited and was normally relegated to the…
Amendments to Labor Code
It was published today in the official Gazette Law no. 73/2017, of August 16th, introducing the twelfth amendment to Portuguese Labor Code.
Publication of the European General Regulation on Data Protection and parallel Directives
On May 4, having been several years in the making, the Official Journal of the European Union finally published the regulatory instruments forming the new European framework for personal data protection, namely:
Commentary Litigation and Arbitration 7-2015
On September 11, 2015, the Official State Gazette (issue 218) published Organic Law 10/2015, of September 10, 2015 on access and publicity concerning certain information contained in judgments rendered in tax fraud matters.