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New personal data protection bill
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Digital Affairs published a personal data protection bill. The scope of the bill is not final yet. It covers only this part of the regulations which until now has been prepared by the Ministry. Other provisions which the bill is to include ar...
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BSWW advises Buma Group on the lease of DOT Office
Ericsson has signed a lease contract with respect to a space of 8000 square metres in DOT Office, an investment project of Buma Group in Cracow. The seat of the company is scheduled to be moved in June 2017. The Tenant is going to lease the entire Building E of the inve...
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Connections to the gas transmission system increasingly difficult
The Minister of Energy restricts access to the gas transmission system by altering the regulations concerning technical requirements and making the possibility of connecting to transmission system conditioned upon a type of operations run, network diameter and rated pow...
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Supreme Administrative Court: commercial real property does not constitute an organised part of enterprise
The Supreme Administrative Court takes the side of tax payers in the dispute for VAT deduction in the case of acquisition of commercial real property
A written justification of the judgement of the Supreme Administrative Court of 24 November 2016, case file No. I FSK...
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Marcin Kroll made partner at BSWW Legal & Tax
In January 2017, Marcin Kroll was made partner at BSWW Legal and Tax. Marcin Kroll is a patent attorney and partner at BSWW Legal & Tax as well as a European trade mark and design attorney.
He specializes in the protection of intellectual property. He provides co...
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BSWW Legal & Tax has advised on bond issue of i2 Development S.A.
Lawyers of BSWW Legal & Tax has provided advisory services with respect to issue of secured series C bonds of i2 Development S.A. with a total face value of PLN 30m. i2 Development S.A. is a highly dynamic developer company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The b...
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New system of consensual dispute resolution for consumer disputes
At the beginning of the year 2017, a bill was passed whereby businesses will have the right to choose whether they wish to resolve a consumer dispute amicably or whether they prefer to reach for the traditional option and go to court.
The Act of 23 September 2016 on ...
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The bill of the Usury Act under fire after public consultation
Michał Sadrak, Obligacje.pl | 12 January 2017
A majority of organisations and interested entities are critical of the bill prepared by the Ministry of Justice which seeks, among others, to further restrict non-interest costs. The public consultation also covered bond...
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BSWW Legal & Tax advises Rank Progress on the sale of Galeria Świdnicka for EUR 26.7m
BSWW Legal & Tax advises Rank Progress on the sale of Galeria Świdnicka for EUR 26.7m
A subsidiary of Rank Progress concluded with Calioppe Investments a preliminary sale agreement regarding Galeria Świdnicka. The deal is estimated at EUR 26.7m.
BSWW Legal &am...
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Calculation of advance payments towards personal income tax (PIT) in 2017
Maksym Jabłkiewicz for www.infor.pl
The act of 29 November 2016 introduced new regulations concerning income tax threshold and, what follows, modified the rules of calculating advance payments towards PIT.
Let us remind you that as of 2017 the sum reducing the tax...
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Usury Act – BSWW opinions for the Ministry of Justice
Following the legislative process carried out by the Ministry of Justice in connection with the bill on the amendment of the Criminal Code and certain other acts, published with justification on 7 December 2016, and following the fact that as part of the legislative pro...