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Administrative, Administrative concession, Property claims relating to the execution of the contractual relationship, Tar Bologna, Section 1, Judgment November 28, 2020 n. 787.

Jurisdiction - Administrative concession - Motorway concession - Property claims relating to the execution of the contractual relationship - Dispute - Ordinary court jurisdiction. The dispute concerning the claiming of property claims relating to the execution of the contractual relationship underlying a motorway concession, governed by the relevant agreement, falls within the jurisdiction of the ordinary judge, as judge of rights. The Section clarified that - according to the well-known criterion of the substantive petitum for the purpose of identifying the judge with jurisdiction (Cass. Civ., SU, 8 July 2020, n. 14231; id. 23 April 2020, n. 8098; Cons . St., section...

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Administrative, Public Administration Contracts – Procurement Rite – Announcement – Endorsement – SOA Certification, Cons. St., A.P., judgment of 16 October 2020 n. 22

Articles 83, paragraph 8, last sentence, 84 and 89, paragraph 1, of the legislative decree n. 50 of 2016. The plenary meeting pronounces on the nullity of the clauses of the announcement and on the nullity of the subordination of the SOA attestation to the production of the SOA attestation of the subsidiary company. Partial nullity of the clause. Public Administration Contracts - Use - SOA Certification - Subordinated to the production, during the tender, of the SOA certification also from the auxiliary company itself - Nullity of the forecast. Public Administration Contracts - Use - SOA Certification - Subordinated to the production, during...

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Financial, Companies, State Aid, the EU extends the extraordinary regime

Governments can cover up to 90% of the costs of SMEs in difficulty. In an economic context that remains dramatically uncertain and while fears of a resumption of the flu epidemic increase, the European Commission announced on Tuesday 13 October that it had extended the extraordinary regime relating to state aid rules by three to six months. 14/10/2020 Source Confindustria Emilia...

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Financial, Alternative Investment Funds, Consob

Aifmd (Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive) Resolution no. 21508 of 22 September 2020 Consob Regulation no. 11971/1999 (Issuers' Regulation) Consob, with resolution no. 21508 of 22 September 2020, following the consultation with the financial market, made some changes to Consob Regulation no. 11971/1999 (Issuers' Regulation) regarding the admission to trading of reserved open-ended AIFs (alternative investment funds), as well as further interventions regarding the marketing of AIFs and advertising activities. The amendments are mainly aimed at better defining the regulatory framework applicable in the event of admission to trading on a regulated market of reserved open-ended AIFs: (i) establishing when the listing prospectus is required,...

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Banking Law, Bonds, Conventional Default Interest, Supreme Court of Cassation, United Sections, Judgment of 18 September 2020 n. 19597

The Sections U., deciding on a matter of utmost particular importance, affirmed the following principles of law: - The anti-usury discipline applies to default interest, intending to sanction the stipulation of excessive interest agreed upon at the time of signing the contract as consideration for the granting of money, but also the promise of any usurious sum is due in relation to the concluded contract. - Failure to indicate interest in arrears within the T.e.g.m. does not preclude the application of ministerial decrees, which in any case contain the detection of the average rate applied by professional operators, statistically detected in an...

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Financial, Financial intermediation, Duties of the Board of Statutory Auditors, “Substantial Correctness”, Court of Cassation, II Section. civ., Judgment n. 14708 of 10/07/2020

With regard to administrative sanctions for violation of the provisions on financial intermediation, where transactions with "related parties" are carried out, the auditors cannot limit themselves to an extrinsic verification of compliance with legal procedures, having the duty to disclose the critical issues for lack of "substantial correctness", due to lack of independence of the "adivsor", resulting from emergencies and the non-compliance of the procedure with the purpose of the law, which is to prevent silent company emptying. Source Supreme Court of Cassation...

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Administrative, Urban planning, Relationship between urban planning tools and safeguard clauses, Cons. St., section II, Judgment of March 23, 2020 n. 2012

The urban design expressed by a general planning tool constitutes a manifestation of the planning power characterized by wide discretion which reflects not only choices strictly inherent to the building organization of the territory, but also pertaining to the broader and more comprehensive framework of possible options inherent in its partner development -cheap; it is articulated on various levels, according to the principles of subsidiarity, so as to try to ensure the level of government closest to the context to which the task of enhancing the local historical, economic and cultural peculiarities refers, together with the principle of adequacy and...

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Financial, Swap Agreement, Upfront Financing, Local Authorities, Court of Cassation, Sec. Un., Judgment no. 8770 of 12/05/2020

  TUEL, Legislative Decree no. 267 of 2000, arts. 42, paragraph 2, lett. i and 48, paragraph 2.   SWAP AGREEMENT - STIPULATION BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES - AUTHORIZATION OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL - NEED - FOUNDATION   The Civil Civil Sections, deciding on a matter of maximum importance, stated that the authorization of the conclusion of a swap contract by the Italian Municipalities, especially if of the type with upfront financing, but also in all those cases in which the its negotiation, however, translates into the extinction of the previous underlying loan relationships or even their maintenance in life, but with significant modifications, must be...

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Intellectual Property, Copyright, Transmission of Use Rights, Unfair Competition, Court of Cassation, I Section Civ., Judgment no. 8433 of 04/30/2020  

Art.110 Copyright Law n. 633 of 1941 _ Transmission of the Use Rights Art. 2598 of the Civil Code _ Unfair Competition Acts Passim Rights of economic use of the work This Court has recently affirmed the principle according to which article 110 is not applicable when the client has purchased the rights to use the work economically as a result and in execution of an intellectual work contract concluded with the author (Cass. June 24, 2016, n. 13171; conf. in the matter of contract relating to a format, Cass. 18633/2017): this is because, in this case, a transfer does not take...

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