How to make the most of the time for entering in compliance with LGPD
10/3/2019 Less than a year remains until the General Data Protection Law – LGPD, there is not time to lose: everyone needs to know the personal data flows within its structure and adjusting it to LGPD. This newsletter aims to outline a project of compliance with the law and point directions to the creation and […]
Arbitration in expropriation cases
In August 27, 2019, it was published Law n. 13.867/19 inserting articles 10-A e 10-B in the Decree-law n. 3.365/41 that regulates expropriation for public utility. With such alterations, mediation and/or arbitration can be used as an alternative for the expropriated to have set the amount of its compensation without having to recur to the […]
What actually changes with the Economic Freedom Law?
After undergoing changes during the legislative process within the Brazilian National Congress, Provisional Measure No. 881, of April 30, 2019, was converted into Law No. 13,874/2019, sanctioned and published on September 20, 2019, pursuant to which the “Declaration of the Rights of Economic Freedom” was instituted, aiming at reducing bureaucracy and providing more legal certainty […]
The Supreme Court will hear in December the appeal concerning inclusion of the ICMS in the PIS/Cofins tax base
10/1/2019 The motion for clarification in the leading case concerning the inclusion of the ICMS tax in the PIS and Cofins tax bases has been scheduled to be considered by the Brazilian Supreme Court’s (STF) Justices on December 5 this year. Justices will then analyze the National Treasury’s motion requesting, among other things, that Justices […]
Telemedicine and the safety of sensitive personal data
Telemedicine is the practicing of medicine using interactive means of audiovisual and data communication for health care, education, and research, which is to contribute to a better doctor-patient relationship. Even though the Federal Medical Council has already issued specific regulation on telemedicine (Resolution No. 1643/2002), on February 6, 2019 it published a new regulation (Resolution […]
More than 14 thousand construction projects are suspended, according to Federal Accounting Court
The federal accounting court (TCU) has recently published an Audit Report (report TC 011.196/2018-1) in which it analyzes a number of databases of contracts concerning construction works financed by the federal government. The diagnosis was that roughly BRL 725 billion was estimated to have financed 39 thousand construction projects, 14 thousand of which are currently […]
