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Extension of the rights under the German Act Against Unfair Competition (the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive)

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 22 2009

A significant amendment to the German Act Against Unfair Competition (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (the UWG)) came into force on 29 December 2008

Siemens reaches record $1.6 billion settlement with US and German authorities

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • December 31 2008

“The message stays clear."

New minimum requirements for risk management for insurers and reinsurers in Germany

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 28 2009

On 22 January 2009, Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin), the German regulator, published a long-awaited circular detailing the minimal requirements of risk management for insurers and reinsurers in Germany

German cartel court clears insurance pools

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 30 2009

In a final decision published on 23 September 2008, the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal recently annulled a decision taken by the German federal cartel office (the Bundeskartellamt) prohibiting the creation of an insurance pool and gave some crucial guidance on the criteria to be applied to define such pools with respect to the insurance industry

ECJ rules in favour of equal pension rights for same-sex couples

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 22 2008

In Tadao Maruko v Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Buhnen (Case C-26706), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a man in Germany should be entitled to the widower’s benefits under his dead male partner’s pension scheme as he was the surviving registered life partner

Update on collective portfolio management (CPM)

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 16 2009

In our last international edition of the Financial Services updater our German desk in London discussed a substantial change in German banking regulation, which is going to come into effect in Q1 or Q2 of 2009: the introduction of a new case for regulation (“Anlageverwaltung” - collective portfolio management - CPM

German men see a raise of their health insurance premiums

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 18 2008

From 2008 the principle of equal treatment will be applied in tariffs for health insurance

Companies need legal compliance audits

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • August 24 2009

Most companies in Germany have recently established compliance departments

German draft CCS law stopped and highly disputed

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On 1 April 2009 the German Federal Government passed a draft for a law relating to CCS measures (the German CCS Law

New insurance contract law enacted in Germany

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • July 19 2007

The German Parliament has enacted the new insurance contract law which will take effect on 1 January 2008

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