Małgorzata Kiełtyka
and Jakub Gładkowski of KG LEGAL Kiełtyka Gładkowski took part in a virtual
meeting of the members of Deutsch-Nordischen Juristenvereinigung e.V.
Deutsch-Nordischen Juristenvereinigung e.V is an organization, which goals
are:
Promotion of
professional education
Knowledge and understanding of
Nordic law in Germany and of German law in the Nordic Council countries
Personal and scientific contact
between German-speaking lawyers and lawyers from the member states of the
Nordic Council.
Partners of
KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI, Małgorzata Kiełtyka and Jakub Gładkowski, took part in the
elections to Life Science Cluster Program Council, as its members.
Krakow Life Science
Cluster was established in 2006 as
a cooperation network of institutions and companies from the southern Poland
macroregion, which combined common goals and a vision for the development of an
innovation ecosystem in the field of biotechnology and life science. The main
goals of the Life Science Cluster are as follows:
Creating a cooperation network in the field of Life Science, enabling effective connection and use of the potential of people, enterprises, universities, scientific and research units, business environment institutions as well as local and regional authorities existing in this area.
Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in the field of life science and creating conditions for the effective commercialization of research and development results
Combining and developing resources and competences in the area of life science in order to effectively use both the existing opportunities and opportunities related to the development of an innovative knowledge-based economy.
What should tax transparency and
reporting consist of?
On 1 June 2021, the Council of the EU
reached an agreement with the EU Parliament on public reporting by Member
State. The agreement was based on the proposal for a Directive of the European
Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2013/34/EU as regards
disclosure of information on income tax of 13 January 2021(2016/0107(COD)). The
proposal extended its scope to the largest domestic traders, i.e. international
traders or those whose total annual income for the last two financial years
exceeds €750 million, thus obliging them to file tax reports on their
activities. The €750 million is subject to conversion into national currency
for countries that have not adopted the euro as their national currency.
According to the proposal, these entities will be obliged to publish and make
available (also on the Internet) information about the income tax they pay.
Moreover, entrepreneurs will be obliged to submit a reporting report in which
they will publish information such as the company name, type of business
activity, number of full-time employees, the amount of income tax and the
actually accumulated tax, as well as the accumulated income. The list of
required data is specified in detail in Article 48c of the proposal, in order
to establish indisputable and uniform rules for obliged entities. It is
required that the information is exhaustive and not intended to omit material
facts. The entrepreneur is entitled to defer certain information for a period
not exceeding 5 years, however, he must substantiate the reasons for his action
– the motivation may be the desire not to disclose certain information about
his activity for fear of competition.
The foundations of the agreement;
previous regulation of the issue
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against Johnson & Johnson, a company known for its baby products, in recent years – but the most well-known one involves 22 women who alleged that their ovarian cancers have been caused by the baby powder they had been using. After the appeal, by the end of which the amount of money the company had to pay those women was reduced from 4.7 billion to 2.1 billion, Johnson & Johnson took legal steps to present the case before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has decided not to consider their case, however, which resulted in leaving in place the last verdict of the Missouri appeals-court.
The link between the illness and the product
was supposed to be based on the fact that Johnson & Johnson baby powders
contained talc. Talc is oftentimes found in close proximity to asbestos, which
is carcinogenic, and in the past the talc has been contaminated with asbestos.
It is also worth mentioning, that talk on itself is dangerous while inhaled in
large doses but the studies aren’t clear on whether or not it’s carcinogenic on
itself.
Although Johnson & Johnson denies that
their products are dangerous to health, they will no longer be selling the baby
powder containing talc in the US and Canada, focusing instead on the
corn-starch-based alternative.
Amendments introduced by the Polish Senate regarding the entry into force of the National Register of Debtors in December 2021 were supported by the Polish Sejm. Over 30 Senate amendments to the amendment to the Act on the National Register of Debtors (KRZ) were adopted by the Sejm. Most of them were editorial and precise. The amendments postponed the entry into force of the provisions on the Polish National Debt Register – from the beginning of July 2021 to the beginning of December 2021. The amendment will now go to the Polish president. The new regulations also introduce a partial computerization of consumer bankruptcy proceedings.
