02.11.2022

New developments in transportation: from the reform of freight-forwarding contracts to limitation of liability in multimodal transport, from “fuel surcharge” clauses to exemption from payment of the ART contribution for road haulage companies

The beginning of this year saw several interventions of the lawmaker in the transport field. The most significant step addressed freight forwarding contracts, whose discipline under the Italian Civil…

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02.11.2022

Grants for intermodal freight transport: the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region’s experience

By Decision C(2022) 1427 final of 3 March 2022 (hereinafter, the “Decision”), the European Commission approved a state aid scheme[1] aimed at promoting the shift of freight traffic from road to rail or…

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02.11.2022

Annual law for the market and competition approved: what changes for the port world?

The annual law for the market and competition of 2021[1] (“Legge Concorrenza 2021”) has been approved as a result of a long legislative procedure that, as is known, experienced some slowdowns due to the…

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02.11.2022

Call for input on the Italian port industry to define new regulatory measures

As is well known, the Italian Transport Regulation Authority (“ART”) was established[1] by Italian lawmakers in order to - inter alia - “ensure, in accordance with methods that encourage competition, the…

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28.10.2022

China issues new policies to encourage foreign investment in manufacturing

On 13th October 2022, days before the opening of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing, six ministry-level agencies in China, respectively the National Development and Reform Commission, the…

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20.10.2022

China data protection report - update october 2022

At the following link you can find the memorandum “China Data Protection Report 2022”, an in-depth analysis of the new rules on the processing of personal data in China through an explanation of the main…

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19.10.2022

Ukraine crisis – Sanctions (update)

This memorandum is not intended to be exhaustive and has the sole purpose of providing a preliminary overview of the sanctions imposed, and in the process of being imposed, against Russia, with a…

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14.10.2022

Contracts of dispatchment and Creditor self-protection

Relevant references to identify the legislation or ruling being discussed: Legislative Decree no. 79/1999, Articles 1460-1461 Italian Civil Code (ItCC), Deliberation no. 398/2021/R/EEL What happened?…

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05.10.2022

Mortgage and cadastral taxes halved even to foreign-law open-ended real estate funds

This is, in essence, the takeaway from the twin rulings 28595 and 28610 published yesterday, October 3, 2022, by the Supreme Court. Let's see how: Italian law has ensured since 2006 (with the so-called…

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03.10.2022

Differences between harmonized company law and domestic rules: the phenomena of “gold plating” and “circumvention” of EU law

First of all I would like to thank Fondazione Courmayeur and Centro Nazionale di Prevenzione e Difesa Sociale for the excellent organisation, while also giving a heartfelt thank you also to Paolo…

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16.09.2022

The new insider list of companies whose instruments are admitted to trading on Euronext Growth Milan

From 4 August 2022, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1210 adopted by the European Commission last 13 July 2022 ("Regulation"), laying down implementing technical standards for the application of…

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08.09.2022

New "Antimonopoly Law of the People's Republic of China"

On June 24, 2022, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress published the final version of the "Antimonopoly Law of the People's Republic of China" ("Antimonopoly Law") (中华人民共和国反垄断法), which…

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