Category New legislation

Royal Decree-Law 9/2024 and the Extension of the Accounting Moratorium.

In the current economic context, the recent approval of Royal Decree-Law 9/2024 of 23 December represents a new milestone in the regulation of capital companies. This legislative text introduces an extension of the accounting moratorium for the purposes of the…

More about the relative relativity of contracts

The Decision 905/2024 of 24th June of Tribunal Supremo comes again around the “extra partes” bond of the contracts, when the third party involved is not a “penitus extranei” (completely alien), and does it in the same manner that the…

Liability of credit and guarantee Insurer is subsidiary, and not joint and several.

Judgment number 626/2024 of the Spanish Supreme Court deals with a case involving a surety insurance contract and the question of the statute of limitations for actions arising therefrom. The ruling is of significant relevance in the interpretation of limitation…

Main amendments in civil proceedings

BOE no. 11 of 12 January 2024 publishes the validation agreement of Real Decreto Ley 6/2023, which approves urgent measures for the implementation of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan for the public service of justice, civil service, local government…

Services of Company Director are not levied by VAT

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Case C 288/22) of 21 December 2023 answers two questions for preliminary rulings on the interpretation of certain articles of Council Directive 2006/112/EC in relation to the common system…

Royal Decree 817/2023 on Artificial Intelligence

Royal Decree 817/2023, dated November 8, 2023, establishes a controlled testing environment for assessing compliance with the proposed Regulation of the European Parliament and Council concerning harmonized standards in artificial intelligence. Effective from November 10, 2023, and valid for a…

The new regulation of structural modifications (RDL 5/2023)

BOE Nº154 of 29 June 2023 publishes Royal Decree Law 5/2023 (RDL), which deals with a series of heterogeneous matters, including structural modifications of commercial companies. The sole repealing provision of the RDL repeals Law 3/2009, and replaces the regulation…

Royal Decree 571/2023 on Foreign Investment

BOE No. 159 of 5 July 2023 published Royal Decree 571/2023 of 4 July on Foreign Investments, which will enter into force on 1 September, with the aim of implementing Law 19/2003 of 4 July on the legal regime governing…

RD 249/2023, of April 4th, on cryptocurrencies

It is worth this quick note to mention the obligation that RD 249/2023 (art. 3) introduces in RD 1065/2007 (General Tax Management Regulation), adding a new Article 39 bis, which imposes the obligation on Spanish exchanges to submit (i) an…

Short analysis of the Judgment about form 720

The Judgment of the First Chamber of the CJEU of 27 January 2022 (C-788/19), which has been widely publicised, declares that Spain violates European Union law – and specifically Article 63 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European…

The foreseen “Planes de Reestructuración”

The Draft Bill on the Reform of the Consolidated Text of the Insolvency Law for the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on preventive restructuring frameworks introduces significant reforms to insolvency law, which mainly concern the regime of exoneration of unsatisfied…

Act 10/2021 on Teleworking

The BOE nº164 of 10 July 2021 publishes Act 10/2021 on Teleworking, as a result of Royal Decree-Law 28/2020, of 22 September, which, after being validated by the Congress of Deputies, has been passed as a draft law. Remote work,…