The enforcement of competition law in Spain has experienced important changes during the last two and a half years. A new Act (Act 15/2007, on Defence of Competition, ADC) entered into force, creating a new Competition

The purpose of compliance is to help prevent the risks for a company that can arise as a result of the infringement of an applicable law, by putting in place internal control procedures and measures.

For more than a decade, the only existing set of recommendations on corporate governance in Portugal (Code of Corporate Governance) were adopted and released by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM).

n January the European Commission presented a reform of the EU Data Protection Directive. The main focus is to guarantee privacy rights in the digital economy and to remove the current fragmentation and costly administrative

The new Data Protection Regulation proposal developed by the EU will be applicable to European and foreign organisations and to those that, although not based in Spain, commercialise products and services targeted at European citizens.

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (SDPA) recently fined two small to medium size companies (SMEs) for non-compliance of the relevant duties on ‘cookies’ requirements, in the amounts of €3,000 and €500  respectively. In particular, as further described