Professor Stefano Zunarelli has been appointed President of the Awarding Committee that will have to evaluate tenders received following the European call for tender issued by Invitalia Partecipazioni S.p.a. (operational instrument of the Agenzia Nazionale per l’Attrazione degli Investimenti e dello Sviluppo d’Impresa S.p.A., the National Agency for Inward Investment and Economic Development which is…
As already mentioned, an Italian company intending to market its products in the UAE, may initially consider using agents. It is important to bear in mind that in the UAE market the activity of commercial agency can only be exercised by local citizens, as provided in Article 2 of the Commercial Agency Law, which states:…
By means of measure no. 25487, published in Bulletin no. 21 of 15 June 2015, the Italian Antitrust Authority, charged the CNF (the Italian National Bar Council) with the violation of art. 15 paragraph 2 of Law 287/90 for failure to comply with a previous decision of the same authority, no. 25154 October 2014. Through…
As usual, when summer ends the number of Court cases is increased by a peculiar kind of disputes: those concerning claims for damages caused by contractual breaches of tour operators and travel agents. These situations are referred to as “damages for ruined holidays”. What are they exactly, and what are the safeguards for those who…
With a very recent decision the Court of Trieste ordered the Customs Authority to immediately release the bank guarantee through which a customs broker had guaranteed the import operations by means of VAT warehouse. In the specific case the broker represented by the Firm saw to a series of shipments through a VAT warehouse. In…
The establishment and the beginning of the activities on 15 January 2014 of a national authority responsible for the transport sector (Autorità di Regolazione dei Trasporti – A.R.T.) which is fully independent and autonomous from the political network and has a series of numerous prerogatives is certainly of great impact. A comprehensive set of laws…