Up-to-date with bnt - and with commercial law in Central and Eastern Europe.

The next Central and Eastern Europe workshop will take place on 28 March 2012 at the Industrial and Commercial Chamber Suedlicher Oberrhein in Lahr, Germany. →

A regional conference “Day of Public Services East Germany 2012” will take place in Berlin on 14 and 15 March 2012. →

According to plans of the Polish Minister of Economy (who presented the first draft of a new Law on Renewable Energy Sources at the end of December 2011) the actual support system for renewable energy sources needs a change because of its immense cost. →

The new bnt survey has revealed that although European and international regulatory frameworks and conventions have led to an increase in the harmonization of IP rules between the countries covered by the study, a number of significant differences remain. The most significant differences in CEE jurisdictions concern the protection term for designs (between 5 to 10 years), the possibility to register smells, colours, sounds and 3D marks, membership in international conventions, and – perhaps of most practical relevance – in registration fees and filing procedures: a trademark registration fee in Hungary is more than double the fee in Poland, and more than four times the fee in Latvia, whereas the filing will take between 10 months in the Czech Republic and Lithuania as compared to 24 months in Poland and Belarus.

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bnt Warsaw invites to the Conference  “Biogas in Poland - Potential, Investment Risks and Development Prospects until 2020”. The conference takes place on 26th October 2011 at EXPO XXI Centre in Warsaw and refers to topics important for energy investments in Poland. Among the speakers Mr Michał Brach from bnt Warsaw will lecture about permits necessary to open a biogas plant in Poland.

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As of September 2011 Prof Dr. Alexander Riesenkampff will support bnt attorneys at law active in Central and Eastern Europe including the Baltic States in developing its business, contributing to bnt his experience as a corporate lawyer acquired in over 40 years of legal practice. With over 120 professionals in ten countries in the region, bnt supplies legal advice to German and international investors. Emphasis is on real estate law, trade law and life sciences.

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The largest and most advanced biogas facility in Hungary was recently completed with legal support from bnt Budapest office. →

Simplified land transactions and transparent titles of ownership →