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The independent commercial law firm Oppenhoff has been nominated as “German Law Firm of the Year 2020” at this year's The Lawyer European Awards.

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Companies in the agricultural and food supply chain face many changes In the food supply chains, small and medium-sized agricultural producers are facing what in some cases are powerful processing and retail companies. In the agri-food sector, these include in particular large supermarket chains, large dairies or slaughterhouses.

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As of 1 December 2020, tenants will have a legal claim against their landlords to the toleration of structural changes to install charging points. Commercial lessors are also affected by the reform and will have to tolerate installations by their lessees in future - all in the spirit of promoting e-mobility.

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The mere attempt by a supplier to influence the resale prices of its dealers usually constitutes a violation of German antitrust law. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) of Düsseldorf has now clarified that a final blocking of deliveries to a dealer on grounds of differing ideas about resale prices can be permissible. There is no violation of the German antitrust law boycott prohibition if the blocked retailer cannot be induced to increase its resale prices in line with the supplier’s intentions. A supplier who is unhappy with the pricing policy of a retailer is therefore not powerless, despite the prohibition of vertical price fixing.

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The independent commercial law firm Oppenhoff has been included in the JUVE ranking for the Frankfurt region for the first time. For the annually published JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2020/2021, 34 editors have conducted more than 9,000 research interviews this year.

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Online trade has been booming for years and in times of the "corona crisis" more than ever. The food trade is also increasingly pushing into the online sector, especially in view of possible or already existing quarantine scenarios. Several big names in the industry are now active in the "e-food" business.

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But in which cases does the employer owe the continued payment of the employee’s wage? And under what conditions does the employee have compensation claims under the German Infection Protection Act (IfSG)? On the basis of typical case constellations, which include the topic of returning travellers, we have set out the answers to these questions below.

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With the amendment to the Announcement on the Principles of the Federal Government for Eval-uating the Reliability of Exporters of War Weapons and Arms-Related Goods, which entered into force on 20 October 2020, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control [Bun-desamt für Ausfuhrkontrolle, BAFA] has added further provisions for internal compliance pro-grammes (ICP) to the existing regulation. In particular, it specifies the requirements for a Chief Export Control Officer (“CECO") [Ausfuhrverantwortlicher] who is to be nominated.

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On 25 August 2020, the governmental coalition agreed to extend the payment of short-time work compensation. This planned extension and other current changes are part of the consequence management policy in the corona pandemic. After completion of the legislative procedure, these changes will come into force on 1 January 2021.

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Influenced by COVID-19, the food industry is booming. Food is being ordered online with measurably more frequency. "E-food" is trendy: the term describes the buying and selling of food through digital distribution channels. Not only private individuals are making use of this. More and more companies are also occupying this business sector. But caution is required: there are several points that companies need to consider when setting up e-food distribution structures. The Platform-to-Business Regulation (Platform-to-Business Verordnung, "P2B-VO"), in particular, will have to be observed under certain circumstances.

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