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China – Are WeChat Conversations Admitted as Evidence by the Courts?

[Labour Law] – WeChat is the most popular social network in China. It is used daily as a professional communication and management tool. It is also regularly used to manage attendance, send information and contracts, organise meetings, hold online meetings, etc. One of the recurring questions being asked is whether all of these WeChat conversations ...

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China – Business Name Registration Reform

[Corporate Law] – Following a decree promulgated on December 28th, 2020, the State Council issued a revised regulation on registering business names (the “Provisions”). These Provisions have come into effect on March 1st, 2021, with the purpose of standardizing business name registration, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, maintaining social and economic order, ...

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China – Fourth revision of the Patent Law

[Patents] – Introduced in 1985 and revised three times, after eight years of discussions, the fourth revision of the Patent Law of the Republic of China will come into effect on 1 June 2021. Sylvie Savoie and Chen Xiaoyun present the main changes in this new version.

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China – IIT Subsidy for High-level Foreign Talents in Beijing

[Income Tax] – Certain foreign senior executives, scientific or technical directors may qualify as high-level foreign talents and as such are eligible for a tax subsidy on their personal income Check your eligibility with Shunshan HE and Sylvie Savoie. Applications for the year 2020 can be submitted between July and August 2021. Detailed evaluation criteria ...

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China – Keep away from employees with “bad faith”

[Employment Law] – The phenomena of employees abusing the litigation rights granted by Chinese laws and regulations to obtain “personal benefits” seems to have been regularly increasing. Isabel Moga Rella and Ding Yu present a case where a company dismissed an employee who had failed to meet the Company’s requirements in the first two months of ...

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China – New Health Protocol for Imported Goods Marketed in China

[Customs and international trade] – All companies that process, load and offload, transport, store or sell all types of goods imported into China must apply the provisions of Notice 17, the Protocol on Covid-19 Prevention and Control Mechanisms applicable to manufacturers and trade operators of goods imported into China. For cold-chain products, companies must refer to the even ...

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China – New Medical Device Regulations

On 18 March 2021, the State Council promulgated the Regulations on Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices, which will take effect on 1st June 1st, 2021 (the “2021 Regulations”). Compared with the existing Regulations on Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices (lastly revised in 2017), the 2021 Regulations focuses more on innovation and development of ...

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China – New Rules for Registering Cosmetics

[Cosmetics] – A new Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulation simplifies the rules that apply to registering and controlling cosmetic products sold in China. This newsletter presents the main changes affecting cosmetics manufactured outside of China and imported into China for marketing purposes. The rules that apply to domestic cosmetics are slightly different to those that ...

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China – The Reform of Chinese Export Control Legislation

[Expert control] – The new regime will enter into force on December 1st, 2020 China engaged over the last few years a deep review of the regime it had initially set in 1990s. China will now implement a rather autonomous export control, intended to safeguard national security and interests and perform non-proliferation obligations. Control principles ...

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China – Withdrawal of tax exemption on allowances for foreign employees

[Income Tax] – With the 1st of January 2022 quickly approaching, many employees are concerned about the potential abolishment of the current regime that allows for some benefits-in-kind to be exempt from tax. Will this regime actually be terminated as of 2022? How should we prepare? Sylvie Savoie and He Shunshan answer your questions and ...

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China Follow up of the reform of individual income tax

As a reminder, on 31 August 2018, the Chinese National Congress promulgated the Amendment to the PRC IIT Law (“IIT Amendment”) (cf. our Newsletter of 4 September 2018: China – Individual Income Tax Reform).

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E-commerce in China: a Chance You Should not Miss

[E-commerce] – Still unclear how to embark on a journey into Chinese e-commerce market? Still keep away from Chinese e-commerce? Liu Yimin and Zhang Beibei share strategies that allow you to start a business in China’s e-commerce market.

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EU & Germany newsletter by DS GRANER

In our newsletter we would like to inform you regularly about news and general information in the field of law and business in Europe and Germany in particular. We hope you find this useful and wish an enjoyable read! Recent developments and measures related to the coronavirus pandemic in the EU and Germany Further news related ...

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EU & Germany newsletter by DS GRANER

In our newsletter we would like to inform you regularly about news and general information in the field of law and business in Europe and Germany in particular. We hope you find this useful and wish an enjoyable read! Recent developments and measures related to the coronavirus pandemic in the EU and Germany Further news related ...

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Indonesia: liberalization of franchise regulations

Good news for the franchise sector in Indonesia which revoked most of the previous regulations imposing requirements for the registration and operation of franchises.

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Web Crawlers’ Data War

Web crawlers (web spiders, web robots) are programs or scripts that automatically browse a website, grab information and build an index. In our Data Economy, web crawlers permit companies to obtain and exploit large volumes of data which, once analyzed, can have a significant impact on their productivity and profitability. The question is: Can web ...

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