Pre-emptive right of co-owners
30.01.2018
From 1 January 2018, the legal pre-emptive right of the co-owners of real estate comes into force. This legal pre-emptive right was anchored in the old Civil Code and abolished by the new Civil Code in 2014. Now it is reintroduced by a new Civil Code amendment.
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16.01.2018
From 1 January 2018, there will be an important new way for the division of land. In contrast to the previous regulation, a plot can now also only be divided on the basis of the simple notification from the building authority about the approval of the plot division. Previously, this could only happen when the legal relationship to the land plot changed (for example, when transferring the ownership right to the separated part). From now on it will be possible to divide a plot in advance and then only transfe
Read moreConstitutional Court on electronic sales evidence
02.01.2018
On 12 December 2017, the Constitutional Court decided about the request for the repeal of the Law on the sales evidence. The law was not completely repealed. However, the Constitutional Court has declared some of its individual provisions for unconstitutional. So-called third and fourth phase of the introduction of the electronic sales evidence, which were planned for the year 2018, were stopped. However, those entrepreneurs who have already had to introduce the evidence (restaurants, hotels, wholesalers and retailers) are not exempted from this obligation.
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