On 8 September 2025, the European Commission adopted a new Delegated Regulation replacing Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the regime for the control of dual-use items, brokerage, technical assistance, transit and transfers of dual-use items (the common list of dual-use items in the EU). This […]
On 15 July 2025, the Spanish Supreme Court issued Judgment 985/2025, which is highly relevant for multinational groups operating centralized treasury systems (“cash pooling”). The judgment ends a long-standing dispute with the Spanish tax authorities, confirming earlier decisions of the Spanish Central Tax Tribunal (administrative tax court of first instance, TEAC) and the Spanish National
Royal Decree-Law 9/2025, of 29 July, has been published in the Official State Gazette dated 30 July 2025, extending birth and child care leave, by amending various labour and social security regulations, as well as the Basic Statute of Public Employees, to extend birth leave, adoption, foster care and foster care with the aim of
The long-awaited and important ruling of the Supreme Court has just been published regarding the application of the 95% reduction for family businesses provided for in the Inheritance and Gift Tax, in cases of property rental activity. The regulations establish that, for the leasing of real estate to be considered an economic activity, it is
Today’s Official State Gazette publishes the judgment of the Third Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court of 19 June 2025 declaring the nullity of Section 3 of Chapter VI of Royal Decree 517/2014, regulating unmanned aircraft. This Section includes articles 53 to 58 of the Royal Decree and was introduced at the request of the
Just a few hours ago, the European Commission took a decisive step towards the consolidation of a common space market with the presentation of a Proposal for a Regulation that seeks to harmonize the rules applicable to space activities throughout its territory. [1] This initiative responds to an increasingly evident reality: for some years now,
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Royal Decree 10/2025 of 14 January (published in the Official State Gazette – BOE – on 15 January 2025), approves the new National Classification of Economic Activities 2025 (Clasificación Nacional de Actividades Económicas 2025 – CNAE-2025), which replaces the currently applicable CNAE-2009. This update responds to the need to reflect structural, scientific and technological changes
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In a significant legislative change, the government has approved Law 1/2025 of January 2nd, which repeals the Golden Visa program. This new regulation will come into effect on April 3rd, 2025, after this date international investors will no longer be able to apply for this type of visa. The Golden Visa program has allowed foreign
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The Spanish Government has decided to extend, until 31 December 2026, the transitional regime that suspends the liberalisation of certain foreign direct investments in Spain carried out by residents of other European Union (EU) countries and of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This measure was initially introduced in the sole transitional provision (“disposición transitoria
