On June 2, the Council of Ministers published the Waste and Contaminated Soils Draft Bill, aiming to transpose Directive (EU) 2018/851 of May 30, 2018 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste, and Directive (EU) 2019/904 of June 5, 2019 on reducing the impact of certain plastic products on the environment.

On Wednesday November 11, 2020, the Spanish Parliament passed Spanish Act 6/2020 regulating certain aspects of electronic trust services (the “Trust Services Act”), thus concluding a protracted parliamentary process that lasted more than two years.

On February 19, 2020, the European Commission published the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), as we explained in this blog post. The Commission subsequently launched a public consultation to receive stakeholders’ opinions and public positions. The preliminary results published by the European Commission are available here.

Two new regulations have been published detailing and enhancing companies’ obligations both on equal treatment for men and women and equal pay plans. They develop the regulations introduced in this area in March 2019 (Royal Decree Law 6/2019) (Legal Flash). As you will remember, on September 22, the new remote working regulations were revealed (Royal

Two weeks ago, Royal Decree Law 28/2020, of September 22, on remote working was published in the Official Gazette of the Spanish State (BOE) and, in its additional provision six, included the tax regime for the “2020 UEFA Women’s Champions League” final, whose quarter-finals, semi-finals and final were held in San Sebastián and Bilbao in

Most of the provisions in Directive (EU) 2017/828 on shareholder rights (“SRD II”) on remuneration were already covered by the Spanish Companies Act (Ley de Sociedades de Capital) of 2014. However, the Bill published on September 7 (the “Bill”) includes some significant changes.