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On 12 July 2020, Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services (hereinafter: Regulation) became applicable. In the May edition of Legal Buzz, we wrote about what to look for when opening an online store. In this issue, we outline the new conditions that you or providers of online platforms you use may have to meet.

On 14 May 2020, the Constitutional Court issued ruling Ref. No. U-I-222/18, which has bettered the position of debtors in so-called creditor compulsory settlement proceedings and, inter alia, now allows them to appeal orders to initiate compulsory settlement issued on foot of a creditor's petition.

The Labour Inspectorate carried out more than 14,000 inspections in 2019 and detected more than 25,000 different violations, imposing fines totalling approx. EUR 4.1 million, up marginally on 2018 figures.