The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce is preparing a reduction of around 13% from the rates to be paid for the request of trademark’s registration, a measure that will bring a saving of 2.7 million annual Euros to the users of these services. The minister also indicated that in the last year there has been a reduction in a third of the average period of concession of a trademark in Spain, from eight months to five months and a half. The Government has approved a set of measures to facilitate the access for the companies to the protection of trademarks, such as the electronic request and renovation of the trademarks or the streamlining of the payment system.
The Spanish Association of Tax Advisers (ACEFIGET) adduces the technical complexity and costs that small and medium-sized enterprises (PYMES) are undergoing to fulfil this fiscal obligation, given the modifications the new norm is bringing.
Judge Baltasar Garzón will have to confront a penal process of prevarication in the Spanish Supreme Court. The Tribunal’s Second Court-room has decided to admit prosecuting a criminal proceeding based on a complaint in which the famous “star judge” is accused of an obvious crime of prevarication “premeditated, conscious and believed to pass unpunished” because of his performance in the process he initiated about the disappearance of people during the Spanish civil war and the General Franco’s political regime.
a second consecutive month, registering a fall of 38.4% with respect to March, when the insolvency declarations also fell in 43,1 percent compared to the previous month.
