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  15/01/2025

  China

  2025 – Topics that may Concern You

  Companies doing business in China constantly have to deal with changes in regulations and new laws. This will also continue in 2025.Topics such as the new PRC Company Law, new PRC Tariff Law, PRC Regulations on Export Control of Dual-Use Items, network data security management, data transfer, opening up capital markets to foreign investment, and raise of statutory retirement age of employees etc. will continue to be a concern for many companies in China in 2025.Complying with regulatory requirements is one of the key challenges for foreign companies and investors in China, not only in terms of...

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  05/12/2024

  Europe

  Updated EU Chemicals, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation: implications for labels, advertisers, online marketplaces

  The updated EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging of hazardous chemicals Regulation (CLP Regulation) was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 20 November 2024 and enters into force on 10 December 2024.New provisions and clarifications include:practical labelling changes, in particular mandatory formatting rules for labels to ensure legibility (including minimum font sizes and spacing), greater flexibility to use fold-out labels/leaflets (with mandatory content and arrangement of label elements), additions to what must be included when using ‘limited’ labelling, and voluntary...

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  03/12/2024

  England

  High street rental auctions - non-statutory guidance published

  SummaryFollowing the coming into force of the legislation for high street rental auctions on 2 December 2024, the Government has now published its non-statutory guidance on the operation of this new regime. Property owners will be interested to see the detail of and approach to high street rental auctions, which may have an adverse impact on their control of vacant commercial premises on the high street.Detailed guidance on high street rental auctions[1]In our Law-Now Compulsory powers to take control of empty high street properties we commented on the new regulations for high street rental auctions...

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  14/11/2024

  England

  Compulsory powers to take control of empty high street premises

  Summary High street rental auctions of vacant high street premises have been trailed for a long time and were originally proposed by the previous Conservative Government. On 11 November 2024 the Labour Government laid before Parliament the regulations for High street rental auctions (HSRAs): The Local Authorities (Rental Auctions) (England) and Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) Regulations 2024. They come into force on 2 December 2024 and apply to England only. HSRAs will allow local authorities to tackle persistently vacant premises in city, town and...

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  07/10/2024

  Belgium

  The Repairability and Durability Index: a New Challenge for Industry Players

  Inspired by similar initiatives in France and at European level, Belgium is introducing the obligation to display a repairability and durability index for certain products on the market. The Act on the promotion of the repairability and durability of goods was adopted on 17 March 2024 and the first Royal Decrees needed to implement the Act were published last month in the Official State Gazette.The first Royal Decree determines the goods covered by the reparability index, the technical standards for establishing the scores for each of the criteria and the method for calculating the reparability...

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  19/08/2024

  England and Wales

  The approach to non-com­pli­ance: Supreme Court unanimously rules that failure to serve a statutory notice on a landlord did not invalidate a right to manage claim

  SummaryThe Supreme Court has delivered its judgment in the second ever “leapfrog” appeal from the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) in the case of A1 Properties (Sunderland) Ltd v Tudor Studios RTM Company Ltd [2024] UKSC 27. The Court dismissed the appeal and found that the failure to serve a claim notice on a landlord did not prevent the transfer of the right to manage under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (the “CLRA”).Importantly, the Supreme Court confirmed the appropriate approach in cases of statutory procedural non-compliance, where the statute is silent...

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