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Opening of the Chinese market for Polish cosmetics

Polish companies are willing to start selling cosmetics in China, however still some formal requirements stand in the way. China has recently changed its cosmetics industry regulations. Until May 1 2021, China required importers to test cosmetics on animals. It was an insurmountable barrier for European producers, because the European Union has been banned from testing cosmetics on animals for many years. Now the Chinese are demanding a certificate of Good Manufacturing Practice. It is to certify that the preparation was developed under the conditions and standards imposed by an international standard. Such certificate should be issued by the supervisory authority. The Polish certificate has not yet been created, although its content was proposed by the Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry during the summer holidays in 2021. The Union brings together over 220 companies, including manufacturers, distributors, laboratories, consulting companies and teaching centers.

Without a proper certificate and without an efficient procedure for issuing it, the Polish cosmetics industry loses its competitiveness against other Western countries on the world’s largest market.

Experts in Poland emphasize at the same time that the certificate is not everything. It is still necessary to develop an instruction for its issuing, which will go to the poviat (local level) health care centers.

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The creation of the European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA)

The Portuguese government, in partnership with 26 EU Member States, Iceland, and the European Commission, has launched the European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA) on 3 November 2021.

The European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA) is a new entity that will support 26 EU Member States and Iceland who, having signed the EU Startup Nations Standard (EU SNS) declaration in March 2021, commit to ensuring their startups have the best conditions to grow at every stage of their life cycle.

ESNA will support these countries’ efforts to become a ‘startup nation’. It will do this through:

– sharing of best practices as set out in the EU SNS;

– providing technical support to countries to concretely implement changes;

– monitoring progress.

ESNA will work closely with the 27 European countries that have signed up to the EU SNS and support them in implementing the 8 underpinning standards:

– fast startup creation and smooth market entry (e.g. setting up a new company within one day);

– attracting and retaining talent (e.g. an accelerated visa process for tech talent from outside the EU);

– stock options (e.g. no taxes for stock options before being cashed in);

– innovation in regulation (e.g. regulatory sandboxes allowing startups to experiment);

– innovation procurement (e.g. removing administrative impediments that would put startups at a disadvantage);

– access to finance (e.g. increasing the amount and diversity of growth capital);

– social inclusion, diversity and protecting democratic values (e.g. incentives to hire on diversity of gender, ethnicity, age and religion);

– digital-first (e.g. all interactions between authorities and startups via digital interfaces).

The launch of the ESNA took place during the second day of the Web Summit in Lisbon, officiated by the Portuguese Minister for the Economy Pedro Siza Vieira.

The ESNA will also support countries that hold the rotating European Council Presidency. It will do this via the ‘ESNA Presidency Board’ which ensures ESNA can align its actions with the priorities of rotating presidencies.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-european-alliance-accelerate-startups-growth

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KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI WILL PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL CLASS ACTIONS SYMPOSIUM 2021

On 16 and 17 November 2021 KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI will participate in Global Class Actions Symposium 2021 organised by ICLG.com. With 14 panel discussions across the two days, expert speakers will cover topics including:

Funding international collective proceedings

Settlements of global disputes

Planning Global Strategy

Class action for breach of data protection

Competition claims

ESG claims

Global trends in securities litigation

Consumer protection

Calculating damages in cross-border cases

Since class actions expertise, with heavy emphasis on cross border aspect, is one of the key specialisations of KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI, the participation in the event will allow our lawyers to gain more insight into current trends and strategies within global class actions.

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America’s Seed Fund National Science Foundation – Possibilities of obtaining foreign seed capital for Polish technology start-ups

What is seed capital?

Seed capital funds handle with financial support for enterprises at an early stage of development or newly created enterprises (start-ups). This is due to the fact that novice entrepreneurs, when starting their adventure with business, have limited resources to implement innovative ideas – one may even be tempted to say that the only capital is their project. The aforementioned funds not only make their resources available, but also offer substantive support, e.g. in the field of introducing the product to the market. In return, investors receive shares in this company, the purpose of which is to commercialize a new product or service.

How to get seed capital effectively?

Obtaining this type of financing is not an easy operation, as evidenced by strong statistics – on average 6 out of 10 entrepreneurs fail, despite the initial enthusiasm of investors and the vision of earning much more money. Putting aside such pessimistic statistics, a person looking for the attention of business people, should first have a solid and substantive business plan that will contain the most accurate descriptions of his vision, along with ideas for development after receiving funding. When this key condition is met, the stage of negotiations with potential investors takes place. They are aimed at defining the structure, financing conditions and its costs. The entirety of this long and complicated project ends with the signing of an investment agreement.

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KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI PARTICIPATED IN MARKETS TO WATCH: WASHINGTON, D.C.

On 21 October 2021 KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI has participated in the virtual event, Markets to Watch: Washington, D.C. organised by PitchBook, Bridge Bank and Data Tribe, NewSpring Capital, Sands Capital and Updata.

The speakers included:

Brian McCabe, Senior Director, Technology Banking Group Bridge Bank

Alex Lykken, Senior Analys, Pitch Book

Dan Moss, Principal Updata Partners

Adam VeVerka, Partner NewSpring

Maurice Boissiere, Chief Customer Office Data Tribe

Gene Riechers, Venture Partner, Sands Capital

The speakers discussed the market and business as well as investment opportunities in Washington D.C.

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