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On 1 July 2020 amendments to the Property Code will enter into force and introduce the new institute of related property into the Slovenian legal order. The new institute is similar to the real property relationship of condominium.

On 29 March 2020 the Industrial Property (Amendment) Act entered into force. The amendments introduce several changes in the field of industrial-property rights (trade-marks, patents, designs, etc.).

As in all areas of our lives, the COVID-19 outbreak has also had an impact on tourism. Below, we briefly summarise your rights as a consumer in the event that you have been forced or wish to cancel your planned trip.

The National Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia submitted the Emergency Measures Act to Curb the CoVID-19 Epidemic and Mitigate Its Consequences for Citizens and the Economy (ZIUZEOP) for urgent procedure.

Yesterday, the National Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the so-called "Anti-corona Mega Law", which introduces a number of new measures in various areas of daily business and private life. In this newsletter, we focus on the most important measures in the area of labour law and, in part, social security.

As a result of the CoVID-19 epidemic, it is also necessary to take into account the obligations which the management and supervisory board have pursuant to legislation regulating financial management of companies and insolvency proceedings. At a time when a company is facing financial problems, a timely execution of all obligations regarding financial management can have important consequences, both for the future of the company as well as for the responsibility of its bodies.

Various measures and prohibitions related to controlling the spread of the CoVID-19 epidemic have led to a reduction in the volume of business and the occurrence of commercial harm to market entities, as they are unable to carry out their activities or can only carry out their activities in a limited manner (e.g. online sales). In doing so, these persons raise the question of the insurer, with which they have concluded a downtime insurance policy or any other relevant insurance policy, covering the damage incurred by the insured persons.