The Spanish Supreme Court has just handed down an important ruling for flat owners (full text in Spanish here). Essentially, the Supreme Court has ruled that, in the event of a tenant’s failure to pay rent, a landlord bringing summary eviction proceedings for non-payment may also claim interest on the unpaid rent in the…
The new Spanish Startup Law in 90 seconds The new Spanish Startup Law is already being processed in the Spanish Congress of Deputies. If you are a startup (or an investor), the question you are probably asking yourself is: will I be able to benefit from it and, if so, how and when? This…
Spain takes a first step to regulate Autonomous Vehicles The Spanish Official Journal (BOE) publishes today Law 18/2021 of 20 December, which amends the Law on Traffic, Circulation of Motor Vehicles and Road Safety. The headlines of this new Law focused on the fact that it will no longer be allowed to exceed…
Fourteen Proposals to Improve the New Spanish Startup Law And the day finally arrived. Five months after announcing that its approval was “imminent” (and more than two and a half years after starting its processing), on 6 July the Government approved its Report on the Draft Startup Law. Spain does not yet have…
Europe sets homework for Spain’s future Start-up Law The Spanish Prime Minister, Mr. Pedro Sánchez, made an announcement on February 11th. He said that, “imminently”, his Government would begin to process the so-called Start-up Law (Emerging Companies’ Ecosystem Law in its formal name). Today is March 19th and “imminent” seems to be, well,…