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The new Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act establishes a register of beneficial owners of companies to be established by the end of 2017 and introduces new thresholds for reportable cash transactions.

Internet platforms, such as YouTube and Facebook, which promote and package online video and other contents, face greater obligations with the proposed EU copyright reform.

The decision of the Employment Tribunal of Great Britain could bring changes in the treatment of self-employed individuals providing a taxi service through mobile platforms. “The self-employed” employees of UBER in GB have been granted the claim for payment of the minimal wage and acknowledgement of other rights from employment relationship.

A creditor who has acquired an enforcement resolution can be »leapfrogged« by third persons who claim that they bought the real estate from the debtor and that they are not yet registered in the land register as owners.