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What if there was a pandemic, but everyone stayed at home? Rights and duties regarding home office and short-time work.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced both employers and employees to adapt to a new normal in next to no time. In the spirit of social distancing, home office and short-time work have become fixtures i...
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Virtual AGMs - company law going digital?
The past year saw a necessity-driven trend towards digital decision-making in companies. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the holding of virtual meetings became admissible under law in the spring of 2020, wh...
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Who’s afraid of environmental impact assessments? An introduction to the world of the Austrian EIA Act.
Podcasts only available in German language.
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Notaries going digital – brought about by the pandemic, this new approach is here to stay.
The past year has been a challenging one in many respects, and the Corona pandemic has led to new approaches in many walks of life. Even if such changes were ultimately driven by necessity, not all of...
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Virtual court hearings – a short-term stop-gap or here to stay?
The Corona pandemic has made virtual court hearings more relevant than ever. In this fwp Law To Go podcast, fwp associates Mario Burger and Josef Danler provide an overview of the legal basis for cond...
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From pencil to mouse: digitalisation in the real estate sector
In the course of the past 20 years, digitalisation has dramatically changed our everyday life. While previously, you’d have looked things up in a lexicon or consulted a map, today your smartphone is...
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BREXIT – Legal basis of post-BREXIT relations between the EU and the UK
Since the United Kingdom left the EU with effect from 31 December 2020, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland constitutes the ...
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What is Compliance?
Ethics and values in the context of work, lobbyism and anti-corruption are receiving more and more media coverage, with the term compliance having become a real buzzword. In this fwp Law To Go Podcas...
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What is new in the Austrian Enforcement Code?
The purpose of the overall reform of Austrian enforcement law, which has just entered into force, is to eliminate outdated provisions from the 100-year-old code and make it easier for creditors to rec...
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Art purchase contracts - What buyers and artists need to consider
Many art fairs and auctions traditionally take place in autumn and winter. Every November, fwp organises the fwp kunstakt exhibition, a joint art project of fwp and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, wh...
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New warranty - 5 changes you need to know about
Since the beginning of the year 2022, new provisions on warranty are in force. In simple terms, a warranty is the seller's obligation, i.e. liability, to ensure that his product or service is free of ...
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The dangers of e-commerce
COVID-19 has provided a further boost to e-commerce, a sector that has already been on a growth trajectory for a while now. Online shops are currently springing up everywhere. The range of offers is c...
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Public authorities as the driving force for innovation
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a devastating global economic crisis, with the research and development sector as well as young and innovative enterprises being hit particularly hard. Thanks to public pr...
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Crowdfunding 2.0. - the European crowd as an innovative source of alternative funding for start-ups and investors
As government support programmes are being phased out, Austrian companies are coming under growing pressure, especially in times of crisis, to obtain external funding from other sources. In addition t...
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Branislav Topic
• Mag. iur. University of Vienna, 2025 • Semester abroad, Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy), 2025
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Changes in Securitisation Regulation in response to the COVID-19 crisis
Markus Fellner, Mario Burger The Securitization Regulation aims in particular to diversify the sources of financing for European companies and to put the allocation of risk in the European financial ...
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ECJ denies applicability of the Croatian Invalidity Law
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) was requested by a Croatian court to examine the compatibility of the Croatian Law on the invalidity of credit agreements featuring international elements (“Inval...
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Organisational requirements under procurement law
The 2018 Federal Procurement Act (Bundesvergabegesetz 2018, BVergG 2018) entered into force on 21 August 2018. In the new Act, also the grounds for the exclusion of bidders were partly recast. As a g...
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In any case, commercial operators of student residences are now subject to the regulations of the Student Residence Act
Over the past years, the sector of student residence operators has increased significantly. In Vienna, companies such as ‘The Fizz‘, ‘The Student Hotel‘ or ‘Greystar‘ have already or will ...
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Get ready for the expanded AML rules
As one of the responses to the Panama Papers revelations, the European Commission has prioritized the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing. The 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (...
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- Get ready for the expanded AML rules