Tag: Laws

As a rule, only the prohibited association itself is entitled to challenge the prohibition of an association, not, however, association members or third parties. Upon ...

The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection intends to clarify that statements on social media about products that are made without consideration and primarily ...

Currently, fraudsters under the name "Organization Transparency Register e.V." are sending out E-mails in which recipients are informed of the obligation to notify the transparency ...

In a landmark decision, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (OLG) has declared the monitoring of stationary traffic by "private service providers" to ...

GMail is not a telecommunications service. This was the decision of the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster in response ...

At the suggestion of Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze, the Federal Cabinet today launched the draft bill to amend the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management ...

Will young people under 16 in Germany soon no longer be able to use Twitch, YouTube, Discord, Steam, Twitter and similar platforms? This, or something ...

No majority for proposal to combat cybercrime A bill from Bavaria to combat cybercrime was voted on in plenary on June 28, 2019, but did ...

This is currently good news for streamers and YouTubers, as well as everyone who has to face youth protection issues on the Internet, especially in ...

The Federal Cabinet today approved the draft of the Annual Tax Act. It contains numerous amendments to various tax laws. Among other things, this law ...

The DOSB (German Olympic Sports Confederation) has commissioned a legal opinion on the concept of sport in connection with Esport, which concludes that Esport should ...

In principle The VIII. Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice today issued a landmark ruling on which activities a company is permitted ...

The following article was originally written by Andrea Rizzi from www.insightlegal.it and will be published here in German and in an adapted version after agreement ...

By decision of today, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig referred questions to the ECJ on the interpretation of Art. 23 para. 1(j) and (e) ...

Since I was asked about it. Both the political and legal situation is completely different from what it was 12 years ago. The issues from ...

Sometimes there are judgments that are just fun to read! A citizen of the Reich brought an action before the Cologne Administrative Court to be ...

With a 10-month delay, Directive (EU) 2016/943 on the protection of confidential know-how and confidential business information against unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure (EU Secrecy ...

As it currently looks, a § 126a will probably soon be added to the penal code. This shall read as follows:   Offering services to ...

The German government has introduced a new bill to strengthen fair competition, which could help small and medium-sized companies in particular, as well as small ...

As of May 25, 2018, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of individuals ...