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Greece
The applicable legislation establishing a national screening mechanism for foreign direct investments (FDI) and implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/452 in Greece is Law 5202/2025, which was adopted on 22 May 2025 (Greek FDI Law).
State-specific OSHA guidelines: California
United States | Publication | January 2021
On November 30, 2020, California’s new emergency, temporary COVID-19 standards took effect. Title 8, California Code of Regulations, sections 3205 through 3205.4. See our recent alert and blog post for more information.
On December 14, 2020, California’s governor issued an Executive Order which modifies the emergency COVID-19 regulations by reducing the required quarantine or isolation period required by Section 3205(c)(10) (“Exclusion of COVID-19 cases”) and (c)(11) (“Return to work criteria”) from 14 days to 10 days. Thus, for example, employers need only exclude employees with COVID-19 exposure from the workplace for 10 days (as opposed to the original 14 days) after the last known COVID-19 exposure to a COVID-19 case.
On December 16, 2020, the National Retail Federation, the National Federation of Independent Business and three small employers filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court to block Cal/OSHA from enforcing the new COVID-19 regulations. The complaint describes the regulations as unnecessary, “scientifically unsupported” and “arbitrary and capricious.” We will continue to monitor activity in this case.
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UK Government’s Department for Transport publishes Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy
The UK Government’s Department for Transport (the DfT) has published its Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy, setting out its plan for decarbonising maritime and new decarbonisation goals for the UK domestic maritime sector.
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Privy Council confirms burden of proof regarding duty to achieve best price reasonably obtainable rests with the mortgagor
On 29 May 2025, in Finlayson v Caterpillar Financial Services Corp [2025] UKPC 24 (The Bahamas), the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (the Privy Council) heard the appeal of Mr Garet O Finlayson and Mr Mark Finlayson (the Appellants) following the Supreme Court of the Bahamas and the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas finding in favour of the respondent, Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation (the Respondent).
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