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Overview of the main provisions of the Competition Law, and discussion of the enforcement regime and recent enforcement trends.
Thailand | Publication | March 2022
On 18 March 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) officially announced the regulations to prohibit the usage of digital assets (i.e. cryptocurrencies and digital tokens) as a means of payment for goods and services with an effective date on 1 April 2022 (The Notification of the SEC no. KorThor 5/2565 re: regulations, conditions and methods of providing services by the digital asset business operator that must not be in the manner of supporting the usage of digital assets as means of payment for goods and services).
Most of the principles set out in the regulations remain the same as the initial principles proposed the SEC and the Bank of Thailand (as set out in our previous update here) with only a few key additional information and amendments, in particular:
1. A digital assets business operator who is currently violating the regulation will have a grandfathered period to comply with the regulation by 1 May 2022; and
2. Any business operator who continues to violate the regulation will be subject to a fine not exceeding THB 300,000 and an additional fine not exceeding THB 10,000 for each day of the period which the violation continues.
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Overview of the main provisions of the Competition Law, and discussion of the enforcement regime and recent enforcement trends.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) recently ruled in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz & Ors v. Switzerland (Application No. 53600/20) that Switzerland had breached the European Convention of Human Rights (the Convention) by not taking sufficient action against climate change. In particular, it found a breach of the right to respect for private and family life contained in Article 8 of the Convention, based on Switzerland’s failure to mitigate the impact of climate change on the lives, health, well-being and quality of life of its citizens. It also ruled that Switzerland had breached the right to a fair trial in terms of Article 6, in that the domestic courts failed to examine the merits of the applicants’ complaints, including the scientific evidence. In this article we consider the key features of this landmark judgment, which has wide ramifications for Member States of the Convention.
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