Administrative Law

• Limits Are Imposed on Rural Land Ownership by Foreigners
• A New Extension of the Emergency
• Argentine Legal Digest
• Argentine Congress Discusses Proposals to Limit Rural Land Ownership by Foreigners
• Draft Law for the Amendment of the “Buy Argentine” Regime

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Banking and Finance

• New Criminal Sanctions Applicable to Some Financial and Stock Market Activities
• New Restrictions to Purchase Foreign Currency
• Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing: New Obligations for Capital Market and Insurance Sectors
• Increase of FX Control
• Repatriation of Investments and Funds: Insurers Are Exempted From the Mandatory Reserve Requirement

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Capital Markets

• Mutual Investment Funds
• New Public Offering Regulations
• Financial Statements of Holding Companies’ that Control Financial Institutions and Insurance Companies
• Public Companies Required to Allocate Earnings
• Insider Trading and Manipulation of Negotiable Securities Offenses

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Commercial and Competition Law

• New Secretariats for International Trade, Competitiveness and Industrial Planning
• Recent Tax Information Exchange Agreements Signed by Argentina
• Effectiveness of the Free Trade Agreement Between Argentina and Israel
• Increase of Fines as Deterrent to the Execution of Further Anticompetitive Conducts
• New Preventive Measure in the Pay TV Market

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Corporate Law, Foreign Investments, Mergers and Acquisitions

• Validity of Notifications Served at the Legal Domicile of Companies: Significant Supreme Court Precedent
• Transfer of Shares. Liability of the Seller for “Hidden Liabilities”
• Companies, Non-Profit Associations and Foundations: Update of Information
• Securing third party obligations
• CNV resolves that there is no obligation to disclose preliminary negotiations

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Environmental Law

• Disposal of Electric and Electronic Waste – New Regulations in the Province of Buenos Aires
• New Provisions Regarding Environmental Insurance
• The Law for the Protection of Glaciers has been regulated
• New law on minimum standards for protection of glaciers
• The International Court of Justice pronounced on the “Botnia Case”

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General Practice

• Age of Majority Law
• A positive balance

 

Health Care

• Patient Rights in relation to professionals and health institutions
• Disability and medical and educational cover

 

Insolvency and Restructuring

• Amendment of Bankruptcy Law
• Supreme Court Confirms the Rejection of APEs of Financial Entities
• Court of Appeals rejects APE due to lack of information
• The Argentine Supreme Court revoked the approval of Sociedad Comercial del Plata S.A. reorganization procedure
• Court ruling confirms the rejection of APEs of financial entities

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Insurance Law

• “Guaranteed” Deferred Payment Checks - Amendment to Investment Requirements for Insurance Companies
• Changes in Investment Regime of Insurers
• Further Changes to Reinsurance Regulations
• Civil Liability Coverage for Labor Accidents and Occupational Diseases
• Amendments to Measures and Procedures to Be Followed by the Argentine Superintendence of Insurance to Prevent Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism

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Intellectual Property - Anticounterfeiting and Enforcement

• Criminal Court Acknowledges Customs Powers to Inspect and Detain Goods in Transit
• Border Measures – Industrial Models and Designs
• Effectiveness of the Argentine Customs Alert System
• Registration of trademarks with Customs now available
• Border measures - Meeting of the World Customs Organization - Argentine situation

 

Intellectual Property - Copyright

• Phonogram protection term
• Collective procedure for Audiovisual and Cinema Author Directors
• Performance acting or dancing fees
• Literary and scientific works in special systems for blind people: release from payment of IP rights
• Payments to performer: representative entity

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Intellectual Property - Internet and Information Technology

• Criminal Protection of Databases
• Criminal Liability of Website Operators
• Evidentiary Requirements for Proving Internet Publications
• An important ruling on Registration of Databases
• Landmark Ruling on Internet Service Provider Liability

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Intellectual Property - Patents

• Declaratory action ruled inadmissible for patent infringement cases
• Industrial Designs
• Patent applications: Priority List II
• New official fees in Argentina
• Cancellation of a patent and partial payment of annuities

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Intellectual Property - Trademarks

• New Appellation of Origin
• Geographical Indications for Agricultural and Food Products
• Fiscalization of Enological Products and/or Elements
• Anheuser-Busch Scores a Win Against Budweiser Budvar in Argentina
• Acknowledgement of Prior Rights Over a Trademark in Argentina

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Labor Law

• Agricultural Labor Regime
• Minimum Wage
• The Government Extended the Timeframe of the Reduction of Employer Contributions to the Social Security System
• The Supreme Court Admitted the Application of the Anti-discrimination Law to Private Labor Relationships
• New Full Bench Decision from the Labor Court of Appeals as regards Section 8 of Law 24,013.

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Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

• Class Actions. Current Congress Activity (Second Part)
• Strong Support for the Autonomy of the Arbitration Agreement by Argentine Case Law
• Extraordinary Appeals (Certiorari). Flexibilization of Supreme Court Rule 4/2007
• Class Actions: Congressional Activity
• Notes on arbitration agreements in mergers and acquisitions

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Maritime and Air Law

• Extension of the New Regime for the Argentine Merchant Navy
• Regulatory rules to Decree No 1010/2004 regarding the Argentine merchant navy
• New regime for the Argentine merchant navy - Decree No 1010/2004
• Liability of the air carrier

 

Mercosur

• Argentina Approved the Creation of the Banco del Sur
• Plano Brasil Maior
• Creation of an Argentina - Brazil Business Forum
• Brazil: An Opportunity for Argentines?
• Exportation rights and their application in transactions within the MERCOSUR

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Natural Resources, Utilities and Energy Law

• Electricity Wholesale Prices: Subsidy Reduction
• Transfer of a Electricity Distribution Utility Concession’s Contract
• Tax Charges on Natural Gas Consumption
• National Program for Hydroelectric Power Projects
• Supreme Court’s Original Jurisdiction to Rule in Unconstitutionality Actions Against the Law for the Protection of Glaciers

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Pro Bono

• Best interest of the child: important decisions from the Supreme Court

 

Pro Bono

• Asociación Va de Vuelta – Taller de escritura en la cárcel de San Martín

 

Project Finance

• Private finance of infraestructure works

 

Real Estate and Construction Law

• Changes to the Real Estate Transactions Register
• A new Real Estate Property Transactions Registry was created
• Construction permits: suspension of proceedings
• Residential Real Estate Incentives Law
• Authorization to extend the term of a lease agreement

 

Tax and Customs Law

• New Tax Criminal Law Amendment to Be in Force
• The Financial Information Unit Implemented the Collaboration Procedure for the Tax Authority
• Computarized System of Foreign Exchange Transactions
• The Federal Supreme Court Declared Services Rendered by the Horserace Booking Agencies to Be Exempted from the Value Added Tax
• The Supreme Court Defines Important Issues Related to Customs Taxation

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Telecommunications and Broadcasting

• Regulation of the Audiovisual Communication Services Law No. 26,522
• Public Registry of Channels and Producers
• Number Portability Regime
• Licensees of broadcasting services
• The Law of Conservation of Cultural Goods and Heritage

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