Government Procurement & Public Tender Rules·Sweden·Domstol Rattspraxis·1 week ago
Konkurrensverket cannot impose a damages fee where only the procuring sister company meets the 80% activity test, Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen holds — EU law cannot supply a fee the directives do not prescribe.
Industry: Across industries
Professional Body Regulations & Accountant Licensing·Poland·Polska Izba Biegłych Rewidentów (PIBR)·1 week ago·3 documents
PANA approved KRBR resolutions adopting the 2025 IESBA Code Tom 1 as binding from 20 October 2026; new rules apply to audits of periods starting 1 January 2027 and other services agreed from 1 January 2028.
Industry: Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
Company Formation, Registry & Corporate Filings·France·Entreprendre Service Public·1 week ago
Commandités manage and answer for debts while commanditaires risk only their stakes; share sales need unanimous consent by default and pay 3% duty.
Industry: Across industries
Directors' Duties & Corporate Governance·Denmark·Erhvervsstyrelsen·1 week ago
Boards file the amendment on virk.dk within 2 weeks of the decision and need Erhvervsstyrelsen permission; purpose or surplus-use changes face a strict unworkability test with no separate Civilstyrelsen consent.
Industry: Trusts, funds and similar financial entities
Professional Body Regulations & Accountant Licensing·Germany·Bundessteuerberaterkammer·1 week ago·2 documents
Tax advisers acting as administrators face a second admission and chamber under the draft; the BStBK backs the chamber but rejects blanket priority of insolvency duties.
Industry: Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
Commercial & Contract Law·United Kingdom·Legislation gov·1 week ago·3 documents
From 1 January 2027 societies may execute by seal or signatories instead of mandatory sealing, and three liquidity and prudential funding sources leave the 50% wholesale calculation.
Industry: Other monetary intermediation
General Court Decisions & Case Law·European Union·EUR-Lex·1 week ago
In C-359/25 the Court finds an age-based difference of treatment in Greece automatic retirement of diplomats at 65, but holds Directive 2000/78 tolerates it where generational renewal is appropriate and necessary.
Industry: Foreign affairs
Company Formation, Registry & Corporate Filings·Poland·Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych·1 week ago
Stale entries face automatic re-coding by 31 January 2027 or deletion from CEIDG, ending ZUS payer registration; the accident-insurance rate from 1 April 2027 follows the PKD 2025 code on record at 31 December 2026.
Industry: Across industries
Insolvency & Restructuring Law·European Union·EUR-Lex·1 week ago
In Case C-578/25 Ariez the AG says Articles 20 and 23(2) lack direct effect, so a disproportionate Spanish discharge bar must be read consistently, not disapplied.
Industry: Across industries
Insolvency & Restructuring Law·Hong Kong SAR China·Judiciary Legal Reference System (LEGALREF)·1 week ago
Singapore subsidiary in liquidation winds up Hong Kong parent over USD4.335m paid after the subsidiary's own winding-up application; ordinary-course payment for goods is no defence without benefit to creditors.
Industry: Across industries
Professional Body Regulations & Accountant Licensing·Norway·Regnskapnorge·1 week ago
Regnskap Norge controllers trace risk to routines to execution; generic assessments and undocumented follow-up fail. Adapt systems and show engagement lead involvement.
Industry: Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
Government Procurement & Public Tender Rules·France·Légifrance·1 week ago
The Conseil d'État rejects Sin-le-Noble's appeal: partial payments impute to principal before interest, and the execution judge may clarify an interest rate without rewriting the ruling.
Industry: Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Insolvency & Restructuring Law·Estonia·Riigikohus·1 week ago
An annulled bankruptcy still leaves both trustees entitled to pay; Riigikohus quashed the lower courts' fee orders and sent fees and cost-sharing back for retrial.
Industry: Across industries
Government Procurement & Public Tender Rules·France·Légifrance·1 week ago
Challenges to the €60,000 supplies/services and €100,000 works limits for awards without advertising fail; buyers must still pick a relevant offer and rotate contractors. Decided 19 October 2026.
Industry: Across industries
Company Formation, Registry & Corporate Filings·Hong Kong SAR China·Judiciary Legal Reference System (LEGALREF)·1 week ago
CFI: s.42 needs no prior declaration where cogent evidence displaces the register; authority challenges go by strike-out at the outset; false sole-director record ordered removed.
Industry: Across industries
Insolvency & Restructuring Law·Hong Kong SAR China·Judiciary Legal Reference System (LEGALREF)·2 weeks ago
The court rejected the argument that a fully secured creditor can never issue a statutory demand, and held a later bankruptcy would neither strand the appeal nor force the debtor's companies into liquidation.
Industry: Across industries
Company Formation, Registry & Corporate Filings·Finland·Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus·2 weeks ago
Limited companies, cooperatives, branches and European companies must confirm their trade-register details as up to date in YTJ each calendar year, first by 31.12.2027; the free review opens in spring 2027.
Industry: Across industries
Insolvency & Restructuring Law·United Kingdom·Case Law·2 weeks ago
Two winding-up petitions over construction debts were restrained: the Alton application failed mandatory content rules and was time-barred, and a £62k delay cross-claim exceeded both debts.
Industry: Construction
Commercial & Contract Law·United Kingdom·Case Law·2 weeks ago
An English fund LPA signed by one director with no witness signature was never a deed, so its power of attorney could not move the partnership to Cayman; neither estoppel nor contract could cure the defect.
Industry: Trusts, funds and similar financial entities