Contract law

BELGRADE - NGO Transparency Serbia (TS) sent to the government, Finance Ministry and all caucus groups the remarks about the lex specialis regulating the realisation of the Belgrade Waterfront project and requested erasure of certain controversial provisions.

Contract with HPK Engineering "in 2 days"

BELGRADE -- Minister of Economy Zeljko Sertic says the contract with HPK Engineering BV allowing it to manage Zelezara Smederevo will be prepared in the next two days.

The Netherlands-based company "will give USD 20 million to Zelezara with no guarantees," Tanjug quoted him as saying.

President Grabar Kitarovic sent the law on seizure of assets to the constitutional court on Tuesday, claiming some of its provisions were unconstitutional as they do not help debtors stay in their homes.

The law was passed in 2012 and last amended in 2014 on the initiative of current government, led by the centre-left Social Democratic Party, SDP.

The Justice Ministry is drafting a law that will allow same-sex couples to enter into a cohabitation agreement that will grant parties the same rights afforded to heterosexual couples joined by contract, Kathimerini understands.

World Marriage Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of February. The day commemorates husbands and wives as the foundation of the family and the basic unit of society and takes place a week before Valentine's Day this year.

Cohabitation agreements are increasingly gaining ground in Greece since the introduction of the relevant legislation, data compiled by the Interior Ministry from the country?s registry offices has shown.

The number of mayors refusing to comply with the government’s demand that they submit the contracts of all municipal employees who had their fixed-term deals turned into open-ended agreements has risen to 19.

Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court (VAS) has upheld unfair commercial practice accusations of the consumer protection watchdog against telecom operator Vivacom.

The two parties in the ruling coalition have reached an agreement on the provisions of a contentious anti-racism bill that has divided the government for a year-and-a-half, reports said on Tuesday, with a vote on the legislation expected on August 26 and 27.

Six companies have made bids to Greece Public Properties Company (ETAD) to lease Vouliagmeni beach in southern Athens for at least the next 15 years.

ETAD opened the sealed bids on Tuesday. The firm that wins the tender will have to pay a lump sum of 1 million euros and then 15 percent of its annual turnover to the state.