In 2001 and 2009, Repsol was sanctioned by the Competition Defense Court and the National Competition Commission, respectively, for fixing the retail prices of fuel within the framework of its contractual relations ...

Please watch this webinar from Cuatrecasas and an expert panel who will be providing key updates and insights into tax incentives for expatriates in Spain and Portugal.

Last June 12, the opinion of Advocate General Maciej Szpunar was published in Case C-286/24 (Meliá Hotels International, S. A. v. Associação Ius Omnibus), which address relevant questions on access to sources of evidence ...

The Guide will provide guidance to judges and parties involved in the quantification of damages in private competition law enforcement proceedings.

The EU's export control list of dual-use products—items, software and technology that can be used for both civil and military purposes—is based on a common list of dual-use products...

Law 19/2003, published in the Spanish Official Gazette dated 5<SUP>th</SUP> July 2003, includes in its Third Additional Disposition the normative that, amending Spanish Law 13/1985 on investment coefficients, equity and information obligation of financial intermediaries, rules preferred securities under Spanish legislation

In Spain, Savings Banks are subject to the same regulatory treatment as other credit companies, insofar as their operations are concerned. However, as for their configuration, Saving Banks present a number of particularities, such as the obligation to allocate a high percentage of the profits they generate to financing social projects (the reason being their status of not-for-profit organizations) and their regional roots. These justify the existence of differences in their legal framework.

On July 5, 2003, Law 19/2003 on the legal system governing capital movements and financial transactions with other countries and on certain measures for preventing money laundering (the "Law") was published in the Official Gazette.

Due to the increase of the number of banking contracts signed in Spain, there has been an important development in the general conditions used in these contracts, specially regarding the protection given to consumers of banking services.

Following a process taking more than one year, the new Collective Investment Institutions Regulation (subsequently the "Regulation"), intended to modernize the Spanish industry, was approved on November 4, 2005.