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03 March 2018
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Companies, Innovation, Steel, Environment, The European steel industry: main paths to the smart and low carbon industry of the future, EU Industry Days and Eurofer – Estep workshops

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Smart industry European steel industry already a world leader in environmental and climate performance They were held on 22-23 February 2018 at the headquarters of the European Commission Covent Garden and the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Brussels EU industry days updated stakeholders on the Commission's strategic approach to industrial policy and actions to further develop industrial competitiveness in Europe. They are also used as a forum in which stakeholders who contribute to European industrial competitiveness have been able to showcase their activities, learn from each other, discuss cross-cutting issues and develop joint visions for the future. The interested parties came from multiple industrial sectors, finance,...

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02 March 2018
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Industrial Property, Trademarks, Application for Registration, Front Rights, Likeness, Confusion Risk, Consumer Average Warning, Normal Level, Exclusion, Commission ruling on appeals against the provisions of the Italian Patent and Trademark Office n. 50/16 of 04 July – 18 August 2016

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Article 12, paragraph 1, lett. D, CPI, Code of Industrial Property, (Legislative Decree 10 February 2005, No. 30) Registration as a trade mark There are new, in accordance with Article 7, the signs that the date of filing the application Call up Cass. 7488/2004 and 12860/2005 Essential lines of the sentence Opposition against trademark application filed with the UIBM - earlier rights, CTMs - Uibm rejection opposition, against the provision, appealed to the Board of Appeals - examination, the figurative one, the other complex, composed of a figurative part and on the one hand, the relative likeness of the marks, the conclusion that the conflicting...

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02 March 2018
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Stock exchanges, Financial Markets, Manufacturing Activities, Trump’s duties sink Europe – Import duties on raw materials, Germany’s major concern

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A cold shower sales figures in February (-10.8%) Milan, 02 Mar - The protectionist announcement of Trump that frightened Wall Street yesterday (-2%) today weighs on Tokyo (-2.5%) and on Europe at the start of the session. The US president announced that next week he will approve duties to protect the American steel industry and has indicated that they should be 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. All the details on application and possible exemptions are still missing, but a lot has been enough to bury the stock, with Wall Street negatively affecting the budget from the beginning of the year. At the start...

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01 March 2018
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Companies, Growth, SMEs, Economy Form State, Euro Zone, manufacturing is confirmed in the expansion area

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The average of the first quarter PMI has so far been the second highest since the spring of 2000. The PMI, Purchasing Managers' Index, remained above the non-change threshold of 50, thus signaling an expansion for 56 consecutive months. The Eurozone manufacturing sector continues to expand at a high rate in February. The IHS Markit PMI final Index of the Eurozone Manufacturing Sector decreased from 59.6 in January to 58.6 points, but was better than the previous flash estimate of 58.5. The figure is well above the relative long-term average of 51.8. The PMI remained above the non-change threshold of 50, thus signaling an...

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28 February 2018
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Competition, Agreements and abuses, Parental liability concept, antitrust control, intercompany transactions, Competition and Market Authority, Provision no. 27016 of 31 January 2018

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THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY OF COMPETITION AND MARKET IN ITS ADMINISTRATION of January 31, 2018; HEARD the Rapporteur; GIVEN the law of 10 October 1990, n. 287; CONSIDERING its resolution of 22 October 2014 with which the Guidelines were adopted on the methods for applying the quantification criteria for administrative pecuniary sanctions imposed by the Authority pursuant to Article 15, paragraph 1, of Law no. 287/90 (hereinafter referred to as "Guidelines"); IN VIEW of its provision n. 26064 of 8 June 2016, adopted at the end of the procedure n. I / 783 - Agreement between operators in the Vending sector, with which the...

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28 February 2018
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Financial, Stock Exchange, Financial Markets, Protection of Investors and Customers of Intermediaries and ADRs

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The proceedings of the Consob conference - ACF - Università Bocconi of 11 July 2017 have been published The volume collects the contributions presented at the conference organized by Consob, Arbitrator for Financial Disputes (ACF) and Luigi Bocconi University "Protection of investors and customers of intermediaries and ADRs" held in Milan at the Bocconi University on 11 July 2017 . The conference program, which examined the issues of arbitration in the field of financial markets, saw the opening of the works of Simone ALVARO (head of the Legal Studies Office, Consob Studies Division), the introduction of Marco VENTORUZZO (Bocconi University) , the...

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28 February 2018
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Financial, Stock Exchange, Financial Markets, the cost of the Mutual Funds in Italy, Time evolution and international comparison

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New discipline introduced by MiFID2 The work analyzes the structure and the evolution of the cost of Italian open-end mutual funds in the period 2012-2016. As a preliminary point, the work shows that a very high share of the costs goes to remunerate the distribution activity. In particular, around 70% of the commissions paid to asset management companies are absorbed by distribution costs. It is likely that the new regulation introduced by MiFID2, which contains more restrictive provisions regarding incentives, may lead to a revision of the current distribution and commission models. The study then analyzes in detail the costs of the funds, distinguishing between...

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27 February 2018
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Banking and Financial, Bank of Italy and Consob, signed integration with the Memorandum of Understanding on the Intermediary Regulation on the management of conflicts of interest that are potentially detrimental to customers

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The Bank of Italy and Consob have signed an addition to the Memorandum of Understanding adopted pursuant to art. 5, paragraph 5-bis, of Legislative Decree 58/1998 (TUF). The integration enabled the Bank of Italy to issue the CONSOB agreement on the intermediary regulation issued by the latter; the agreement concerns the relevant aspects concerning the "management of conflicts of interest that are potentially detrimental to customers, including those deriving from remuneration and incentive systems". February 16, 2018 Source Bank of Italy Prot_Cnsb_BI_20180215...

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26 February 2018
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Environment, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Companies, New Growth Opportunities, Memorandum of Understanding between the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Energy and Public Services of the Republic of Mauritius

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Signed in Port Louis a Memorandum of Understanding between the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Protection of the Italian Territory and the Ministry of Energy and Public Services of the Republic of Mauritius for cooperation in the field of renewable energy, of energy efficiency and the fight against climate change. They signed the Memorandum of Understanding, the General Manager Francesco La Camera, for Italy, and the Senior Chief Executive Nirmaladevi Nababsing, for Mauritius. The strong exposure and vulnerability to climate change makes the Small Islands in Development a strategic priority for the Ministry of the Environment. To date, in fact, almost 50...

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