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International carriage of goods by vehicle forms an integral part of Bulgarian and European economy, with close to 12 700 transport companies employing over 42 000 people in the sector in 2019. This type of services is far from limited to simply transporting goods from point A to point B, however. The legal framework of […]
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Jul'21
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented restrictions worldwide. In its desire to ease free movement of persons within the EU in accordance with the four basic freedoms on which it is built, the European Union adopted Regulation (EU) 2021/953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2021 on a framework […]
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1 July 2021 (postponed from 1 January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) marks the entry into force of a new batch of rules related to VAT taxation on intra-Community sale of goods aimed at alleviating the administrative burden on merchants. The law applicable to sales within the EU is the Council Directive 2006/112/EC of […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic flipped the script on how business and production function in extreme circumstances. Pharmaceutical companies have finally released vaccines to aid with the normalization of the commercial and social intercourse after nearly a year of development. Science points securely to vaccination as the only effective way to deal with the pandemic but the […]
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Recruiting and holding on to quality employees is becoming increasingly difficult for employers and competition between companies is constantly on the rise. In order to succeed in this pursuit, employers become more and more crafty and offer their employees a number of material stimuli to tip the scales in the company’s favor. Employees, on their […]
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The new requirements of Ordinance No. N-18 from 13.12.2006 for the registration and reporting through cash registers of sales in commercial premises, the requirements for sales management software and the requirements for persons who execute sales through digital vendors fueled much discussion among representatives of the business circles. One of the core issues identified by […]
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The new Bulgarian Law for marks and geographical indications (LMGI) will facilitate and speed up a number of procedures in the intellectual property field. State Gazette No. 98/13.12.2019 published the new LMGI intended to replace the 1999 law of the same name. As early as the public consultations regarding this change it was pointed out […]
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Nov'19
A number of economy analysts warn that 2020 is going to be the year of the next financial crisis. Experts from Forbes, Moody’s and JPMorgan are of the opinion that the world’s economy incoming recession is to be the direct consequence of aging Western population and Donald Trump’s trade wars both with China as well […]
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An apocryphal story about an engaged employee goes: when asked what he does, a NASA janitor answered ‘I’m helping put a man on the Moon!’. Every company would undoubtedly cherish such engagement on their employee’s part, and every employee would be happy to work for a company worthy of such loyalty. Out of all the […]
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Oct'19
Irrefutable determination of the person liable is one of the core issues of filing a claim against the violator and of building our procedural defense against claimed intellectual property and copyright breaches. Typically in these cases, the injured usually does not have enough data to meet the necessary burden of proof in full, in particular […]
