Current Legal Developments in Latvia and the World – May
Current Legal Developments in Latvia and the World – May
BDO Law has compiled the most important news of the amendments to the regulatory acts in May 2025.
This summary covers the following amendments:
This summary covers the following amendments:
- Amendments to the Commercial Pledge Law
- Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 277 of May 6, 2025, "Procedures for Ensuring the Provision of Priority Public Services to Merchants"
- Amendments to Cabinet of Ministers Regulation of August 19, 2014, No. 500 "General Construction Regulations "
- Amendments to the Law On Prevention of Conflict of Interest in Activities of Public Officials
- EU and U.S. phase out sanctions against Syria
- U.S. imposes new sanctions on Sudan over chemical weapons
- U.S. bans imports of Chinese semiconductors
- EU presents roadmap to end dependence on Russian energy
- U.S. imposes new sanctions on Cuba
- UK imposes new sanctions against Russia
- EU adopts 17th package of sanctions
- There are currently 39 active sanctions cases against legal service providers in the UK
- U.S. sanctions against Iran in May