Publications

The recently initiated amendment of the Slovene Insolvency Act seeks to prevent abuse of the institute of personal bankruptcy and in particular the institute of debt remission within personal bankruptcy proceedings.

The European Parliament adopted the European Trade Mark reform package in December 2015, including Regulation (EU) 2015/2424. The aim of the reform package is to modernise the system of EU Trade Mark ("EUTM") protection and to enable users cheaper, faster, and safer access to trade mark registration.

On 2 February 2016, the EU and the US entered into a new political agreement regarding the protection of personal data – “the EU-US Privacy Shield”, which should replace the Safe Harbour regime, which was repealed in autumn 2015, thereby enabling the safe transfer of personal data from the EU to the US.

According to the Slovene Constitutional Court, communication between lawyer and client is confidential. Any investigative action undertaken at the premises of an attorney who is defending an accused person in pre-trial or criminal proceedings is thus strictly prohibited. Interference in an attorney’s privacy is permitted solely in exceptional cases in order to prosecute criminal offenses, if such an interference is necessary and if the data cannot be obtained by other means.