UEPA is a member of ICC Czech Republic
Since April 2018, UEPA is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce ICC Czech Republic. Our lawyers will work with the ICC in particular in the areas of arbitration and ADR. This comes as a part of UEPA´s strategy to significantly expand its activities in the field of ADR.
UEPA partner Andreas Ueltzhöffer, then as the managing partner of the Prague office of Schaffer & Partner, was already in the nineties one of the founding members of ICC Czech Republic. In 2016, as a member of ICC Germany, he was directly appointed by the International Court of Arbitration as arbitral tribunal chairman and successfully concluded significant arbitration proceedings in a high-value case with prominent parties within 10 months of his appointment.
More information about our experience with arbitration and dispute resolution you can find HERE.
ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) is the only worldwide business organization that represents businesses in all parts of the world. The ICC was founded in Paris in 1919. Today among its members more than 6 million companies, chambers of commerce and business associations from more than 130 countries. The ICC National Committees helps entrepreneurs to communicate their interests and views to representatives of the highest authorities, institutions and governments, with whom the ICC has a consultant status at the highest level.
More information about ICC you can find HERE.
UEPA lawyers lectured at University of Economics
In the framework of the partnership between UEPA and the University of Economics (VŠE) in Prague, two of our partners, Lars Klett and Lucie Hladěnová, lectured at the Department of Human Resource Management of the Faculty of Business Administration on Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
The topic of the lecture was a comparison of business-relevant regulations of German labor law to Czech labor law. The lecture was attended by 25 students in the fully occupied lecture hall. Both lecturers are recognized employment law specialists. Thanks to its long-standing cooperation with German companies active in the Czech Republic, UEPA has extensive experience with German law, and five UEPA team members, including Lars Klett, are also licensed advocates in Germany.
UEPA has been cooperating with the University of Economics in Prague since 2015. UEPA partner Andreas Ueltzhöffer is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Faculty of Business Administration.
More about our specialization in labor law you can find HERE.
IBF Residential Real Estate Seminar 2018 @ KPMG
Due to the great success of previous residential real estate seminars, IBF (International Business Forum) is organizing in cooperation with KPMG a third annual seminar, this time entitled “Boom or Bust III: With record prices in the residential market, is the only way up?”. The seminar will provide an overview of the real estate market development in Prague and the Czech Republic over the last year, and will discuss future developments, especially with regard to the current record level of prices on the Czech market.
The seminar will also be lectured by our colleagues Mgr. Lucie Hladěnová LL.M. and Mgr. Jiří Skála, who will inform the participants about the content of the amendment to the Building Law, which came into effect on January 1, 2018, and will present the most significant changes in the field of zoning and building regulations with reference to the related legal regulations.
The seminar is held on April 10, 2018 from 8:30 am at KPMG headquarters, Pobřežní 1a, Prague 8.
More information about the seminar can be found HERE.
Workshop for Central Business Network on legal aspects of the GDPR
Our GDPR team, specialized in the implementation of the new European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into companies practice, organised in cooperation with the company Central Business Network (CBN) a workshop on legal aspects of the GDPR.
This workshop was addressed to members of the business club “Spojme síly”, which is run by the CBN, and took place during a club meeting on April 4, 2018 in Prague, attended by more than 30 members.
Among the speakers were our colleagues Mgr. Lucie Hladěnová, LL.M. and JUDr. Petr Jakubec, who shared with the participants in the workshop also the practical experience from already finalized GDPR process implementations.
Visit to the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris
On 1 and 2 March, 2018, Andreas Ueltzhöffer and Philipp Chizzola accepted an invitation from ICC Germany to visit the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris. Andreas is a member of ICC Germany.
There were old contacts deepened and many new ones were closed. In 2016, between 800 and 900 new arbitration cases were filed with the court. Only in 4 cases were the chairmen of tribunals appointed by the court directly. This is possible under Art. 13 IV a of the Arbitration Rules, if a State is one of the parties.
Andreas Ueltzhöffer was appointed directly from the Court on this basis in 2016. As the head of the office Schaffer & Partner in Prague he was one of the founding members of ICC Czech Republic in the 1990s. In the past, however, he mostly served as an arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations.
Most of the ICC arbitration cases stem from the real estate sector, followed by the energy sector.
A major topic of the conference was how Germany can be made more attractive as place of Arbitration. Still too few parties decide for Germany as a place of Arbitration.
In the future, Philipp Chizzola and Andreas Ueltzhöffer want to significantly expand their activities in the entire field of ADR and seek listings at international arbitration institutions. In many cases concerning the Czech Republic, an arbitrator must speak Czech, know Czech law, but not be a Czech citizen. All these criteria are met by Andreas Ueltzhöffer and other members of the UEPA Team.
Video about the exhibition with paintings by inesj.plauen at UEPA
In the following video you can see the exhibition with paintings by the German artist inesj.plauen, which is still running in our office until April 10, 2018.
A visit is possible by appointment at any time during our working hours.
To view the video, please click HERE.
Let’s have fun watching it!
We give a lecture at the event “Škachův den 2018”
Following our previous lectures, which we organized in cooperation with the Czech Dental Chamber, our colleague Tomáš Mudra will perform a lecture at a training event for dental hygienists and dentists called “Škachův den 2018”.
Tomáš Mudra is a member of our GDPR team and also a member of working group of the Government of the Czech Republic for legislation in the field of data protection. Our GDPR team specializes in preparing companies to implement the new European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The topic of his lecture will be “GDPR – expected changes in medical documentation from a legal point of view”.
This event will take place on February 27, 2018 at Divadlo U Hasičů, Římská 20, Prague 2,
under the auspices of the President of the Czech Dental Chamber Roman Šmucler.
For more information, please visit: www.skachuvden.cz
GDPR – almost 50 percent of Czech companies will not be able to complete preparations in time
Source: www.channelworld.cz
According to a survey by the audit company BDO, almost all Czech companies (96%) are informed about the GDPR. However, only 54% of companies are able to finish their preparations by May 25, 2018, when the new European personal data protection regulation enters into force.
For more information about the Czech private sector’s preparedness for GDPR, please see HERE.
In Germany is the situation similar. According to studies, are only about half of the companies prepared. Last week, the EU Commission sounded the alarm.
Source: www.spiegel.de
“New data privacy rules – There will be no pardon”
An interview with EU parliamentarian Jan Philipp Albrecht (Green) by Marcel Rosenbach.
Click HERE for the full article.
How does this work in your company? If you have any questions about this topic, or even have to work through the entire topic, talk to our GDPR team, one of the most experienced in the Czech Republic. The direct contact details can be found HERE.