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One of the obstacles in connection with the entry into force of the UPC has been the missing German ratification, the German Constitutional court having annulled the first ratification due to the lack of a two-third majority approval of the agreement.

As the Second Senate of the German Federal Constitutional Court ("Bundesverfassungsgericht") decided today

On 26 November 2020 the German Parliament (Bundestag) passed the bill required for German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) with 570 votes in favour...

Today the Federal Council (Bundesrat) unanimously passed the bill required for German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) thereby achieving the two-thirds majority...

The German BaFin's "new" 2017 MaRisk, which form part of general conduct of business rules, are increasingly part of the supervisory cycle for existing firms active in Germany ...

A number of the individual efforts of selected Member States propose legislative measures that aim to give additional comfort to financial market participants.

On 18 July 2018, the German Department of State distributed to associations in Germany, a first ministerial draft of a German Federal Brexit Implementation Act, Brexit-Übergangsgesetz (BrexitÜG),

In a ruling announced on April 29, 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court ("Court") delivered a groundbreaking decision on national climate change legislation.

Olaf Scholz has proposed federal elections to take place in March or April 2025. The leader of the opposition, Friedrich Merz, is pushing for federal elections already in January 2025.

As reported here, the German Constitutional Court ruled in March 2020 that the Bundestag did not effectively pass the Act of Approval of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)...

If an employee who regularly works at a particular plant of the company and has his place of work there is appointed as the superior of employees of another plant...

Although temporary employment agreements are generally more acceptable than in the past, they are still not seen kindly in Germany.

Against the backdrop of the potentially ongoing renegotiations of the Withdrawal Agreement between the EU and the UK or a Hard Brexit

As discussed in the preceding article, if a buyer acquires substantial assets of a facility and the buyer continues operating that facility, then the employees of that facility will automatically be deemed to have been assigned to the buyer.

On February 14, 2023, the Braunschweig Regional Court in Germany dismissed a climate-related action brought against Volkswagen AG ("Volkswagen").

German legislators have adopted a number of Acts of Parliament in relation to Brexit both on the federal level and on the level of the 16 German states.

The regional court of Braunschweig, as competent court for the headquarters of Volkswagen AG ("VW"), rendered a decision that is a significant setback for climate litigation activists in Germany...