On May 1, 2021, an amendment to Act No. 50/1976 Coll. on Land Use Planning and Building Order (Building Act) came into force, which aims to streamline the regulation of advertising constructions and thus strengthen the fight against visual smog....

On February 19, 2021, a draft bill of the new Slovak Electronic Communications Act was published and the formal interdepartmental consultation process commenced. The purpose of the new Act is to transpose Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of 11 December 2018 establishing...

The Government of the Slovak Republic has approved a bill on protection of competition, which, once approved by the parliament, should enter into force on May 1, 2021. The bill on protection of competition transposes into Slovak law Directive (EU)...

A recent amendment to Act No. 62/2020 Coll. (the act on certain emergency measures in connection with the spread of the dangerous contagious human disease COVID-19, and in the judiciary, as amended), effective from January 19, 2021, amends the running...

The Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic has referred the Legislative Intent of the Recodification of Company Law for the inter-sectoral procedure to be reviewed and commented on, which should be finalized by February 26, 2021.  The proposed changes...