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The State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures has published, on 14 April 2016, two decisions: one allocating public numbering resources to customer service and laying down the general terms of use thereof, and the other allocating public numbering resources to telemarketing and laying down the general terms of use thereof.

We analyse the problems that arise when a claim is filed with the UPC for infringement of a unitary patent and, at the same time, for infringement of the validation of the basic European patent in States that are not party to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, and the claimant solely limits the unitary patent (because the defendant only files a counterclaim for revocation of the unitary patent with said court, but does not initiate any parallel revocation proceedings with the competent national court against the validations of the basic European patent in States that are not party to said agreement).

The basis for this paper is a slightly modified real-life case, broadened to include all possible forms of plurality of debtors.

Article 56a of the European Union’s new Medicines Directive introduces a mechanism that allows Member States to require marketing authorisation holders to supply authorised medicines within their territory to meet the needs of their patients. In the event of non-compliance three years after the request, the holder may lose market protection in that Member State, thereby allowing the entry of generic and biosimilar medicines. However, exceptions are provided for in cases of exceptional and unforeseeable circumstances beyond the holder’s control, as well as safeguards to prevent the loss of protection in one Member State from being used to circumvent the system in other protected markets.

The Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the 28th Regime Corporate Legal Framework – ‘EU Inc.’, dated 18 March 2026, introduces a new form of European private limited company. Originally envisaged for start-ups and scale-ups, it has been decided to allow its adoption by all companies. There is no minimum share capital requirement; shares may have no nominal value and may carry multiple voting rights, among other features. The Commission is expected to approve model articles of association so that a company can be incorporated online in less than forty-eight hours and for less than one hundred euros.

All cases decided by the Supreme Court and their specific details are discussed. There is no single solution to the problem of terminating a framework supply of services agreement without an exclusivity clause or a minimum purchases obligation.

Whether or not the purchasers of residential apartments and commercial premises take on, by way of subrogation, the planning obligations arising from a land readjustment procedure, has always been a conundrum on account of the economic and social impact that an affirmative answer would have on the end recipients of housing. The Supreme Court has yet to rule on this matter.

The package of tax measures included in Royal Decree-law 7/2026, of 20 March, consists of various incentives in the field of direct taxation of individuals and companies to reduce dependence and promote energy savings and efficiency, electric mobility, and support for self-consumption and investment in renewables. Moreover, it includes a set of extraordinary and temporary measures applicable to energy taxation and indirect taxation aimed at reducing the tax burden on products particularly affected by rising prices. Lastly, certain changes are made to various local taxes.