Cancellations of contracts concluded online. The new „two-click” cancellation button since 1st of July
The ease with which shopping online comes to us does not always mean the same trouble-free issue when it comes to cancelling a purchased service. German lawmakers have decided to meet consumers’ expectations and streamline the online cancellation process. The introduction of a provision for the termination of consumer contracts in § 312 k BGB […]
Posting of workers
In recent years, we can observe a labour shortage in Germany. Foreign workers have a good chance of taking up jobs in particularly sought-after professions. Posting skilled workers to work across the Oder can be a very attractive solution. The settlement of working time, changes in minimum wage regulations are just some of the challenges […]
Posting of workers. Shortage of professional drivers on the labor market.
Trade relations between Poland and Germany have become a strategic point in international trade. These transactions include not only the exchange of goods, but also the flow of the services. In the recent years, the shortage of workers has also affected the transport industry in Germany. Posting employees to work across the Oder River is […]
Online stores in Germany must ensure that customers can order goods as a Guest.
Participants at this year’s Conference of German Data Protection Authorities passed a resolution that consumers should not be required to create a customer account when shopping online. According to the data protection regulations, customers should always be free to decide whether or not they want to provide their personal data. The practice of “forcing” them […]
Legal representation in the field of intellectual property law and e-commerce in Germany
When regulating every area of our lives, the law must keep pace with the speeding technology. For this reason, the individual offer of E-commerce operators should not only be tailored to increasingly demanding consumer tastes, but also optimized from a legal point of view in both technical and customer service aspects and, last but not […]
Changes from 01.08.2022. Online companies’ establishment in Germany comes into force.
On August 1, 2022 legislation came into effect that allows companies to be incorporated online in Germany. This was made possible by the law implementing the Digitization Directive (2019/1151/EU) („DiRUG”). This is another step toward the digitization of courts and offices, but also the implementa-tion of digital legal services. From the 1st of August, digitally […]
GRAU Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB as a partner of the Transport Meetings in Warsaw
We are very pleased that on 2.06.2022 we participated in the „Transport Meetings” conference, organised by the TSL Biznes portal and the KMG Media publishing house. This is already the subsequent edition of the spring series of Transport Meetings, organized in five locations. GRAU Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB is the content partner of the Transport Meetings in […]
The refund of overpaid maut
The reimbursement of overpaid tolls paid by transport companies for crossing Germany, the so-called MAUT, is becoming a fact. We invite you to read the article written by Adriana Grau in the latest issue of the TSL Biznes (pages 50-51). In the article you will find all the necessary information concerning the MAUT refund for […]
Hamburg as a gateway to the German market
On 25 March 2021, GRAU Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB participated as a partner of the German-Polish Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Poland) in a conference aimed at presenting the city of Hamburg as an important European economic and trade centre. The webinar concerned legal issues related to setting up a business in Hamburg and investment projects […]
Polish hauliers fight for maut refund
We would like to invite you to read an interview given by Ms Adriana Grau to the national economic and legal newspaper “Rzeczpospolita”. The interview discusses the topic of the Polish hauliers’ struggle for the reimbursement of a part of the tolls paid for the use of German motorways. The basis for the claims is […]
