As part of the gradual roll-out of a strengthened system for monitoring and…
Crypto investments are increasingly entering the mainstream. The Luxembourg…
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The Luxembourg Parliament (Chambre des Députés) adopted (on April 21 2016) bill of law no. 6845 implementing Directive 2014/91/EU of 23 July 2014…
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La problématique de la protection de la vie privée des salariés sur leur lieu de travail a déjà été abordé de nombreuses fois au Luxembourg, notamment…
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Also this week, the article 29 Working Party rendered a negative opinion on the EU-US Privacy Shield (see our previous newsletter for more d…
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Considering the increase in terrorist attacks, the legislator has decided to strengthen Luxembourg’s criminal procedure by introducing draft law N° 69…
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La Chambre des Députés a voté cet après-midi le projet de loi n.° 6588 portant organisation des services de taxis et modification du Code de la consom…
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After more than 4 years of negotiation and roughly 4,000 amendments, the General Data Protection Regulation has finally been adopted yesterday by the …
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On 10 March the highest Court of the European Union - the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter – the “ECJ”) delivered an important deci…
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On 6 October 2015, the CJEU invalidated the U.S. Safe Harbor. The EU Commission then published a draft adequacy decision on 29 February, putting in p…
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On 6 April 2016 ESMA published a second discussion paper on UCITS share classes. The discussion paper builds on the feedback received in relation to E…
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Moving beyond the Panama Papers sensational roots, one should not be misled by the dramatic and exagerated information used by the media to capture it…
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At the end of last week, ESMA published its long overdue final guidelines on UCITS V remuneration. The key difference is on the application of pr…
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On November 11th 2015 the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”), consisting of the European Banking Authority (“EBA”), the …
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The precursor to this law dates back to a judgment of the Court of Cassation of 28thNovember 1996. Prior to this decision, article 187 of the Social I…
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The law of July 23rd 2015 on the reform of the social dialogue within undertakings (hereinafter the “Law”) has substantially amended the existing…
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On 24 March 2016, the European Commission Delegated Regulation EU 2016/438 supplementing the UCITS V Directive with regard to obligations of depositar…
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Regulation 15-08 (the “Regulation”) of December 31st 2015 implements how article 7bis of the law of June 15th 2004 (“SICAR Law”) relating to investmen…
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The new law on the insurance sector (the “New Law” ), adopted by the Luxembourg Parliament on 7 December 2015, entered into force on 1 January 2016 an…
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Rappel de la Cour sur les règles en matière de domiciliation de sociétés.
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On 29 February 2016, the Luxembourg government set out the principles of fiscal reform that should be effective from 1 January 2017. Please note that …
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On December 8th 2015, the CSSF published the first version of Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) concerning the Luxembourg Law of December 17th 2010 …
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