Current Legal Developments in Latvia and the World – August

BDO Law has compiled the most important news of the amendments to the regulatory acts in August 2025.

This summary covers the following amendments:
  • Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 508 of August 12, 2025 "Regulations regarding the submission of prices of food products for price traceability and monitoring"
  • Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 523 of August 26, 2025 "Internal Regulations of the Penitentiary Institution"
  • Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 514 of August 19, 2025 "Procedures for Visiting a Prison«
  • Amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 719 of November 27, 2018 “Procedures for Determining the Concentration of Alcohol in a Driver’s Blood and Exhaled Air and for Establishing the Influence of Narcotic or Other Intoxicating Substances”
Sanctions news:
  • The European Union is preparing its 19th sanctions package
  • Germany revokes export licenses for military equipment exports to Israel
  • The European Union is proposing specific deadlines for ending the import of Russian energy resources
  • China is sanctioning two banks registered in Lithuania
  • The United States extends sanctions exemptions for Serbia’s oil refining company NIS
  • European Union is ready to reimpose sanctions on Iran
  • The EU has published guidelines regarding the “best efforts” principle
  • The Financial Intelligence Unit publishes new guidelines in the field of sanctions
  • Panama revokes the registration of 17 vessels following U.S. sanctions
Read a detailed summary here