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Commission raids german electricity companies

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • January 22 2007

On December 12, 2006, the European Commission (Commission) announced that it had carried out surprise inspections (so-called “dawn raids”) at the premises of several electricity companies in Germany

Recent court decision likely to fuel German real estate market

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 8 2007

In a decision released on 31 January 2007, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled that the current German real estate gift and inheritance tax regime is inconsistent with fundamental principles of equality and ordered the legislature to take remedial action by the end of 2008, at the latest

Storing and screening employee emails abroad

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • February 25 2008

This Update sets forth new considerations for email policies in the United States due to the NLRB’s recent ruling in Guard Publishing

New German legislation on smoking bans

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 21 2008

A Federal law passed on 1 July 2007 the Protection Against the Dangers of Passive Smoking Act imposed a smoking ban in all buildings owned by the Federal Government, on public transport and in train stations

German Government boosts employment prospects of older workers (for now!)

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 29 2007

On 1 May 2007 the German Government introduced legislative changes in an attempt to improve the employment opportunities of older workers

E.ON fined for compromising raid

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 19 2008

German electricity company E.ON Energie AG (E.ON) was fined 38 million by the European Commission for breaching a seal during a surprise inspection which took place at E.ON’s premises in May 2006

Germany increases scrutiny of energy sectors

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 19 2008

As of January 2, 2008 Germany’s Competition authority (Bundeskartellamt) has a new Decision Division charged with monitoring potential abusive practices in the electricity, gas and district heating sectors

German Home Care Act

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 14 2008

The Federal Government has issued draft legislation intended to promote home care for dependants (the ‘Home Care Act’

Low award in landmark German discrimination claim

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 27 2009

One of the first cases to be brought under the two-year-old German Equal Treatment Act has recently been heard in the Labour Court at Wiesbaden

German FCO comes down on companies “jumping the gun” just before amendments to the merger filing thresholds pass Germany’s State Council

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 3 2009

With revised merger filing thresholds due to enter into force shortly, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has fined two companies, Mars Inc. (Mars) and Druck- und Verlagshaus Frankfurt am Main GmbH (DuV), 4.5 million and 4.13 million respectively for gun-jumping ie, implementing a transaction that requires notification without prior clearance from the FCO

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