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This checklist This checklist highlights the principal issues to address when preparing contractual terms for business to business agreements on product safety and liability. See Practice Note: Product liability risk management for producers for guidance on controlling risk ahead of new supply arrangements, including carrying out appropriate due diligence on other relevant businesses in the supply chain. Identify all applicable laws (eg Sale of Goods Act 1979, Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994, Consumer Protection Act 1987, General Product Safety Regulations 2005, SI 2005/1803, Consumer Rights Act 2015 and Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024), as well as any standards and codes of practice that govern the products. Take into account specific legislation for the manufacture, import and sale of particular goods such as fireworks, cosmetics, toys, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, personal protective equipment (PPE), gas appliances, food and animal feed, and automotive. See Practice Notes: Consumer protection for defective or dangerous products—legal bases, Product liability and defective products and General Product Safety Regulations...

For more practical, step-by-step guidance on solar projects, including viewpoints from several jurisdictions, consult the textbook also: Solar Power: A Practical Handbook. Negotiating a rooftop lease for solar PV panels When arranging a rooftop lease for solar PV panels, the matters at stake will differ according to the interests of the party you represent. Those issues shift depending upon whether one acts for the landlord, the occupier, or the solar tenant. Here, 'landlord' describes the owner of the freehold or a long lease of the relevant building; 'occupier' means the party in occupation; and 'solar tenant' is the entity proposing to install and own the panels. The solar tenant may equally be the building’s occupier, or could be a dedicated solar developer. A growing number of landlords are fitting solar panels to their properties—either via the same corporate vehicle that holds the building, or through a related solar company. This note addresses rooftop leases and, accordingly, assumes a structure in which the solar tenant is a distinct legal...

Quick reference checklist This quick-reference checklist helps you calculate whether a proposed salary for an employee to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker route meets the relevant pay thresholds for eligibility (the general threshold and the going rate). Specifically, it sets out the formulae needed for the required pro-rating calculations when assessing an offer. There are three steps to establishing eligibility: Step 1 — determine the applicable general salary threshold and the going rate. This aspect is not covered here. For guidance, see the tables in Practice Note: Skilled Worker—salary and skill level eligibility tables. Step 2 — gather the relevant information to feed into the calculations. Step 3 — carry out the necessary calculations to verify eligibility. An example is used throughout: an Aerospace engineer (SOC 2020 occupation code 2126), who has not previously been sponsored under this route, would be paid an annual salary of £60,000, and would work a cycle of 52 hours per week for three...

In this issue: Key developments and materials Electricity and gas market regulation, licensing and taxation Networks and network connections Renewable energy Air emissions, efficiency, and climate change New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Energy resources on Lexis+® Daily and weekly news alerts Key developments and materials Ofgem consults on draft second preliminary Strategic Direction Statement for industry codes Ofgem has opened a consultation on SDS-2 for energy industry codes, outlining its strategic reading of government policy and sector shifts that could drive code changes over the next one to five years. It is seeking input on the proposed policy themes, how they are allocated across the ‘Act now’, ‘Think and plan’ and ‘Listen and wait’ horizons, and whether any significant topics are missing. Ofgem also asks for views on its plan to move SDS-2 from a preliminary document to a hybrid Strategic Direction Statement following the anticipated designation of the...

In this issue: UK mergers UK antitrust UK Competition policy EU antitrust EU State aid EU Digital Markets Act Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Caselex UK mergers CMA unconditionally clears Boparan/ForFarmers (Burston and Radstock mills) merger after phase 2 The CMA has published the final report from its phase 2 review of the proposed purchase by Boparan Private Office Limited, via 2 Agriculture Limited (2Agriculture), of ForFarmers UK Limited’s Burston and Radstock feed mills. ForFarmers is a European producer and distributor of animal feed, with its base in the Netherlands. 2Agriculture, part of the Boparan group, is among the UK’s largest poultry feed suppliers by production volume, directing output to Hook 2 Sisters, a Boparan-affiliated business, and to farmers on the open market. Confirming its provisional findings of 18 February 2025, the CMA concluded the deal is not expected to result in an SLC in local meat poultry feed supply,...

Digital markets CMA publishes plan to monitor UK’s digital markets regime The CMA has released a paper outlining the UK government’s approach to tracking and assessing the new pro-competition framework for digital markets (the Plan). It explains the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) work that both the CMA and government will carry out. Their M&E approach rests on three pillars: Process monitoring and evaluation the CMA will publish information on key output indicators for the regime in its Annual Report and Accounts the government and CMA will run continuous internal analysis to observe and review how the regime operates and to help address the overarching evaluation questions Impact monitoring and evaluation the CMA will take a case-by-case method when judging how well its competition requirements perform findings will appear in the CMA’s Annual Report and feed into a Post-Implementation Review (PIR), examining whether the regime has met its...

The corporate interest restriction (CIR) framework is extensive and intricate. This Practice Note concentrates on the elections a group can choose to make within its interest restriction return. Readers are also directed to: Practice Note: Corporate interest restriction—quick guide for a brief, high-level overview of the CIR and the background to its introduction Practice Note: Corporate interest restriction—glossary of key terms for the meanings of key terms and concepts used throughout the CIR legislation Practice Note: Corporate interest restriction—the main rules for a closer look at the principal operative provisions of the CIR Practice Note: Corporate interest restriction—administration for the more administrative aspects of the CIR, including the interest restriction return The CIR rules permit groups to make specific elections that change the computation of group-interest and other amounts that feed into the group ratio method. Group-interest (rather than tax-interest) is an accounts-based measure of interest and the central component in the calculations of NGIE, ANGIE and QNGIE. Each of the...

CASE HUB (date of judgment—12/01/2017) See further: timeline, commentary and related/similar cases Case facts ARCHIVED — this case hub is frozen as at the decision of 12 January 2017 and is not being maintained Outline Appeal lodged against the General Court’s judgment, which upheld the Commission decision of 20 July 2010 finding breaches of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 EEA Agreement and levying a €59.85m fine, jointly and severally, on CFPR and its subsidiary Timab for the latter’s alleged role in a market‑sharing and price‑fixing cartel relating to animal feed phosphates supplied across the EEA between 1969 and 2004 (‘Animal feed phosphates cartel’). The Commission’s inquiry culminated in a ‘settlement procedure’ in which every implicated undertaking, apart from CFPR/Timab, took part and concluded a settlement with the Commission. On 12 January 2017, the Court of Justice dismissed CFPR/Timab’s appeal in full, confirming in particular that the Commission was entitled to impose a higher penalty on CFPR/Timab than would have applied had CFPR/Timab accepted the...

CASE HUB ARCHIVED This archived case hub captures the position as at the judgment of 26 June 2014 and it is no longer being maintained at present. Case facts ARCHIVE—26/06/2014 Outline An appeal to the General Court seeks the annulment of the decision of the Commission’s accounting officer dated 8 October 2010 concerning payment by instalments of the fine imposed upon the applicants by the Commission decision of 20 July 2010, adopted within a 'hybrid' settlement procedure, in relation to a cartel spanning over three decades in the European animal feed phosphates market ('Animal feed phosphates cartel'). The challenge specifically targets the condition requiring Quimitécnica to furnish a bank guarantee issued by a bank holding a long‑term 'AA' credit rating from one of three named credit rating agencies. The case turns chiefly on inability to pay and the arrangements for the payment of that fine. Parties Applicants: Quimitécnica.com—Comércio e Indústria Química SA (Quimitécnica) José de Mello—Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais SA...

Training materials on the protection of confidential information These training resources consist of template PowerPoint slides with accompanying notes, for use by a trainer when explaining the law on protecting confidential information. Topics include: the meaning of confidential information the consequences of breaching confidentiality laws governing confidentiality confidentiality agreements definitions of confidential information authorised recipients purpose and duration of confidential information remedies handling breaches of confidentiality arrangements with subcontractors The training materials are customisable. Use the link below to download the PowerPoint presentation...