After several years of staying in the registry offices of several consecutive National Assemblies, after promulgation in the State Gazette, on 01.12.2023, the long-awaited amendments to the Copyright and Related Rights Act (the “Act”) finally entered into force.
Eversheds Sutherland Bulgarian member Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners, working as co-counsel to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, has advised Villeroy & Boch on the acquisition of Bulgarian Ideal Standard- Vidima AD, part of the Ideal Standard Group.
In the previous article, we reviewed in detail some of the proposals of the European Commission for a comprehensive overhaul of European pharmaceutical legislation, contained in the new draft Directive on the Union code relating to medicinal products for human use (the “Directive”) and in the draft Regulation laying down Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and establishing rules governing the European Medicines Agency (the “Regulation”), which were not addressed by the Bulgarian media.
On 26 April 2023, the European Commission presented its long-awaited proposal for a comprehensive reform of the European pharmaceutical legislation. The reform aims to replace Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use with a new Directive (“the Directive”) and the integration into a new general regulation (“the Regulation”) of the Regulations establishing the European Medicines Agency and the centralised procedure for the authorisation of medicinal products (Regulation No 726/2004), orphan medicinal products (Regulation No 141/2000), advanced therapy medicinal products (Regulation No 1394/2007) and medicinal products for paediatric use (Regulation No 1901/2006).
Congratulations to Philip Kiossev and Margarita Zhivkova on their recent promotions at Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners, member of Eversheds Sutherland.
Philip Kiossev of Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners, member of Eversheds Sutherland was the author of the CEE Legal Matters Comparative Legal Guide: Restructuring 2022’s country chapter for Bulgaria.
In January 2022, the new Regulation (EU) 2021/2282 of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union of 15 December 2021 on health technology assessment (the “HTA Regulation”) entered into force on the territory of the European Union.