PETERKA & PARTNERS recommended in several categories of EPRAVO’s Law Firm of the Year 2018
We are proud to announce that PETERKA & PARTNERS Slovakia was once again recommended in several categories of EPRAVO’s Law Firm of the Year competition. For the year 2018, our law firm is highly recommended in the categories of Labour Law and Criminal Law and recommended in the following: Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking […]
Second “Selected Legal News” Business Breakfast
PETERKA & PARTNERS Slovakia is pleased to announce that a second date for the business breakfast: “Selected Legal News, or: What Should not be Overlooked” has been scheduled for 18 April in our premises. The speakers will once again be Kristína Ňaňková, Senior Associate and Deputy Director for Slovakia, and Pavol Kundrik, Senior Associate and […]
Invitation to next business breakfast at Bratislava office
The Slovak office of PETERKA & PARTNERS cordially invites you to our next business breakfast: “Selected Legal News, or: What Should not be Overlooked”, in particular with regard to recent changes in AML, commercial and labour law. The seminar will be held on 12 April at our premises. The speakers will be Kristína Ňaňková, Senior […]
Wage costs on the rise
On 14 February 2018, the Slovak Parliament passed an amendment to the Labour Code which will substantially increase existing wage surcharges for night work and holiday work and will also introduce new ones. Employees will be entitled to the wage surcharges for work on Saturdays and Sundays (which was not obligatory until now). The amendment […]
Business breakfast in Košice
On 22 February 2018, in DoubleTree by Hilton Košice, Slovakia, PETERKA & PARTNERS, in cooperation with the French-Slovak Chamber of Commerce, VSE-innogy, and Arthur Hunt, organized the business breakfast: “The Optimal Solution for your Team. Legal and HR Aspects of Recruitment and Dismissal”. This was our first seminar held in Košice, and it was met […]
PETERKA & PARTNERS Slovakia and TMF Services Slovakia invite you to business breakfast
PETERKA & PARTNERS Slovakia and TMF Services Slovakia with the cooperation of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in the Slovak Republic would like to invite you to “Business Breakfast on the GDPR”, which will be held in Grand Hotel River Park, Bratislava, on 15 March 2018. The speakers will be Andrea Farinič Štefančíková, Senior Associate […]
PETERKA & PARTNERS among largest international law firms in Slovakia
According to the rankings prepared by The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia’s only English-language newspaper, PETERKA & PARTNERS is among the largest international law firms in Slovakia. “When compiling the ranking, we used three criteria which are used the most abroad and which speak objectively about the size of law firms: number of people with a law […]
Acting on behalf of an employer – authorization or empowerment?
The Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic provided a clear answer (I. ÚS 155/2017-75 of 31 August 2017) on whether when acting on behalf of an employer in labour relations it is permissible to use a PoA under the Civil Code, thus excluding the current (restrictive) interpretation of the general courts.For more information, please see […]
Changes in export of human medicines in Slovakia
From 1 January 2017, a particular medicine can be exported outside Slovakia only by its holder of marketing authorization, its manufacturer and/or an explicitly empowered wholesale distributor. The Slovak State Institute for Drug Control cannot prohibit the export of medicines.
Obligatory system for emergency ordering of medicines
Each holder of the marketing authorization of medicines fully or partially reimbursed from Slovak public health insurance (categorized medicines) has to have established, and operate, a special electronic system for the emergency ordering of such medicines from 1 April 2017. Ordered medicines must be delivered by a holder of marketing authorization in 24 hours, and […]