On June 14, 2023, the European Parliament adopted negotiating position regarding the proposal for the Regulation of the European Parliament and Council laying down Harmonized Rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union legislative acts, the world’s...

On June 20, 2023, the National Council of the Slovak Republic adopted an amendment to the Commercial Register Act, introducing the term "registrar", which, according to the amendment, is any notary. Registrars will now be allowed to register data in...

The Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic has prepared a bill to amend Act No. 222/2004 Coll. on Value Added Tax. The draft amendment is currently making its way through the interdepartmental comment procedure. The amendment proposes that its...

The National Council of the Slovak Republic (parliament) has adopted an amendment to Act No. 595/2003 Coll. on Income Tax, under which the rules for controlled foreign companies (CFC) applicable to natural persons were abolished. With effect from August 1,...

On July 18, 2023, the President of the Slovak Republic signed the Act on Transformations of Companies and Cooperatives (the “Transformations Act”). The Transformations Act constitutes the comprehensive legal regulation of mergers, acquisitions, split-ups, changes of legal form and also...