25 Jul, 2024 Presentation of naked bodies in advertising (Slovakia) By Marek Bugan The Slovak Trade Inspection fined an advertiser who owned a nightclub for a breach of advertising rules when presenting a naked body....
21 Aug, 2023 Advertising and “class actions“ in Slovakia By Peter Marciš Following the example of other EU countries, Slovakia has just adopted new rules for asserting consumer claims. The new Act on Lawsuits...
28 Sep, 2022 Brand new Code of Influencer Marketing released in Slovakia By Peter Marciš After months of preparations, IAB Slovakia together with the Association of Digital Marketing Agencies (ADMA) finally released and...
13 Aug, 2021 Privacy regulations and comeback of contextual advertising By Peter Marciš Contextual advertising has been here forever. However, with the continuous development of tracking technologies, the use of personal...
02 Jun, 2021 Bad Luck Brian Ad and Self Regulation By Marek Bugan Peter Marciš One of the Slovak advertising agencies has chosen a peculiar approach to advertising by using the well-known Bad Luck Brian meme in a...
27 Apr, 2021 Targeted advertising on social media and GDPR By Peter Marciš Do you target your advertising on social media platforms? (Of course, you do). Then you should know that you may be responsible for...
08 Feb, 2021 “Beauty for all” By Petra Vaneková The Slovak Advertising Standards Council (SRPR) assessed the complaint against the advertisement of a big cosmetic chain Douglas, in...
29 Jan, 2021 To consume, or not to consume, that is the question By Peter Marciš The Slovak Advertising Standards Council (SRPR) assessed the food chamber's complaint against a series of Christmas advertisements of the...
24 Nov, 2020 GALA Webinar: EMEA Advertising Law Year in Review By Dušan Nitschneider Allow me to invite you to join a Webinar "EMEA Advertising Law Year in Review," hosted by the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)...
09 Jul, 2020 Are the new Slovak regulations on Consumer Credit Advertisements compliant with the EU Directive? By Marek Bugan The National Council of the Slovak Republic has approved in the first reading a new act that defines new obligations on the advertisement...
18 Jun, 2020 Free samples of medicinal products to pharmacists. Yes or no? By Peter Marciš In a dispute between two pharma companies in Germany, a question was raised about whether it was legal to distribute free samples of...
12 May, 2020 GALA Webinar: The Global Legal Challenges of Plain Packaging By Dušan Nitschneider It's been several years since plain packaging legislation was introduced with respect to tobacco products, now it has expanded to include...
04 Mar, 2020 Fack Ju Göhte…and principles of morality By Peter Marciš In 2015, following a great success of the comedy “Fack Ju Göhte”, the German production company Constantin Film decided to apply to EUIPO...