Dizzy and relentless spread of COVID-19 has given rise to the measures taken by the Government increasingly restricting a person’s freedom of movement. The above is aimed at smoothing the infection curve and preventing in such way our battered health system from becoming overloaded. The last of such restrictive measures, which has been announced this… Continue reading Coronavirus, contracts and doctrine rebus sic stantibus
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Force Majeure
Amid the current international sanitary crisis due to Covid-19 and the State of Alarm declared in Spain we should review the concept of “force majeure”, which has become an unexpected protagonist these days. Despite that, the Spanish legislation does not contain any specific regulation. This concept has been therefore developed by the Spanish doctrine and… Continue reading Force Majeure
Extraordinary measures of corporate law approved by the Spanish Government due to Covid-19
As the consequence of declaration of the state of alarm in Spain due to Covid-19, and with the purposes of mitigating a negative impact on functioning of Spanish companies, the Spanish Government has approved a range of extraordinary measures. They are set out in a Royal Decree-law 8/2020, of 17 March, on Urgent and extraordinary… Continue reading Extraordinary measures of corporate law approved by the Spanish Government due to Covid-19
Importance of filing the Annual Accounts and measures to prevent registry closure
The administrators of all companies in Spain are required each year to file the Annual Accounts at the Commercial Registry within the month following their approval. This financial information then becomes publicly available and will be kept for a period of six years, so that any third party may request and obtain a copy of… Continue reading Importance of filing the Annual Accounts and measures to prevent registry closure
Speed Legal Networking
Delegates of our law firm Martí & Associats attended last March 10, 2020 the session of Speed Legal Networking held at the Bar Association of Barcelona, organized by the European Centre for Legal Cooperation in Strasburg. The participants of this event, had the opportunity to establish professional contacts with Russian and Ukrainian lawyers and discuss… Continue reading Speed Legal Networking
Report from the Spanish Data Protection Agency on data processing in relation to the coronavirus
Given the emergency health situation derived from the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the Spanish Data Protection Agency has published a report on the processing of health data. The General Data Protection Regulation allows the processing of personal health data in specific cases. Thus, the legislation indicates that the processing of personal data in exceptional… Continue reading Report from the Spanish Data Protection Agency on data processing in relation to the coronavirus