Mr. Andrea Sorgato, Associate lawyer at the Shanghai office and coordinator of the Healthcare Department of the Firm’s Shanghai office, will participate as speaker in the CICC Healthcare Working Group Meeting The meeting, organized by the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce (CICC) will be held on Friday October 20, 2023 from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm…
On 24 March 2023, the antitrust authority in China – the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) – published four implementing regulations (hereinafter referred to as “Regulations”), in order to ensure the correct and orderly implementation of the amendments to the Anti-Monopoly Law (hereinafter referred to as AML) of June 2022. The Regulations entered into…
Almost two and a half years later since the adoption of the strict measures against Covid-19 that threatened the commercial competitiveness of the former British colony, the new Government provisions enter in force, regulating the arrival of travelers entering Hong Kong territory from abroad. Starting from September 26, travelers to Hong Kong will no longer…
In late March, Chinese authorities announced the total lockdown for all citizens living in Shanghai. After several weeks, the situation in the Chinese metropolitan city does not seem to have fully recovered, making difficult the conduction of daily activities and the smooth operation of companies located in this area. Faced with the current companies’ difficulties…
In view of the development acceleration of the Italian economy, especially in the Mediterranean area, the special economic zones (SEZs) have been identified as a functional means of pursuing this objective. On a practical level, the relevant measures adopted by the Italian government and promoted within the PNRR-Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza, aim at…
On December 13, the General Administration of Costums of China (GACC) issued a further announcement – Announcement No. 103/2021 (hereinafter Announcement) – which provides for some clarification relating to the Regulation no. 248 (Regulations on the Registration and Administration of Overseas Producers of Imported Food) and the Regulation no. 249 (Administrative Measures on Import and…
With Notice no. 289, in force since December 1st, 2021, the Supreme People’s Court of China adopted important measures to introduce in China the “Doctrine of Precedent”, or “Stare Decisis” (called as 类案同判) in judgments. The “Doctrine of precedent”, typical of common law systems, acknowledges that awards issued by Courts act as “source of law”,…
In China, the closure of a company requires a quite complex procedure both in terms of time and costs to such an extent that nowadays it represents one of the major impediments for some foreign investors who start an investment in the country. For this reason, since 2017, the Chinese government has been carrying out…
The amendments to the Company Law, which entered into force on 1st March 2014, contain issues of interest to foreign investors, such as the abolition of the minimum registered capital, of the deadlines for its payment and of the cash contribution requirements. As officially stated by Prime Minister Li Keqiang, the purpose of this reform…
On 24th April 2014 the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the second amendment to the Environmental Protection Law (EPL) of the People’s Republic of China which entered into force in January 2015. This amendment considerably modifies the previous law (enacted in 1989) and adds more than 23 new articles to it. Among…