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Health Canada identifies lithium-ion batteries, infant bath seats, and water beads as hazards of concern
Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
Luxembourg | Publication | February 2024
On February 26, 2024, the EU Council adopted new regulations under the Capital Markets Union (CMU) framework, marking a significant milestone in the European Union's efforts to enhance the regulatory landscape for alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) and "plain-vanilla" European Union (EU) investment funds, in the form of the Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities regulatory framwework (UCITS). These regulations, designed to bolster investor protection, ensure financial stability and stimulate investment within the EU, introduce key provisions aimed at strengthening the supervision of AIFMs and facilitating the creation of simplified investment funds. The key provisions of these regulations are:
The directive will now be published in the European official Journal and will enter into force 20 days later. Member states will have 24 months after the entry into force to enact the rules into national legislation.
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Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
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An employer’s ability to ask for a sick note when an employee is absent from work due to illness is becoming increasingly curtailed across Canada.
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Over the past two years, Spain has significantly strengthened its foreign investment screening mechanism, and all acquisitions by foreign investors (as defined below) of a Spanish entity active in a strategic sector are subject to prior authorisation by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism (“MoICT”).
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