The Official State Bulletin has published in its edition of
February 21, the Law 1/2019 of February 20th, on Trade
Secrets, which will enter into force by March 13th,
2019.
In this way, it is transposed the Directive EU 2016/943 on the
protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade
secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure,
which had to be incorporated into local law since June
9th, 2018.
This new Law, adapted to the case law of the European Court of
Justice (ECJ), gives more protection to companies against the
unlawful appropriation of its trade secrets, which had been
protected so far by residual articles of the Criminal Code, the
Unfair Competition Code and contractual clauses.
