On February 13, 2020, the first major amendment to Act No. 90/2012 Coll., on companies and cooperatives, as amended (the "Corporations Act"), was published in the Collection of Laws. It seeks to reduce the regulatory burden and fix certain interpretational ambiguities that plagued the previous version of this law. With a few exceptions, the amendment is slated to come into force as of January 1, 2021.

On March 10, 2020 the Czech government decided to enact extraordinary measures to combat the spread of the new type of coronavirus that causes COVID-19. As a result, beginning on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, primary and secondary schools (elementary and high schools) and universities will be closed. This decision does not apply to nursery schools (preschools) at this moment, but it is very likely that they will also be closed in the near future. 

In the December 2019 edition of Synapse, we wrote about case C-688/17 (the Bayer decision) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which provides guidance on the compensation parties can receive when a patent holder has enforced a preliminary injunction (PI) against them that is later revoked.

Here, our European team looks at what this decision may mean for national practice.

On February 12, 2020 the federal government passed the bill transposing the directive on the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services. In the future, workers sent to Germany are set to profit more than previously from the work conditions stipulated by German legal and administrative regulations as well as generally binding collective agreements.