The landscape of German sales law is once again undergoing “restructuring”: At the EU level, Directive (EU) 2024/1799 on promoting the repair of goods establishes another building block of the “Right to Repair,” which is likely to have a comprehensive impact on German law. The goal is to make repairs more attractive than buying new...

Since the entry into force of the DiRUG (Act implementing the Digitalisation Directive) and the DiREG (Act supplementing the provisions for the implementation of the Digitalisation Directive), the Commercial Register has been fully and freely accessible to the public in electronic form. The personal data stored there can thus be extracted and consolidated on a...

Whether an agreement is a commercial agency agreement is determined by the actual content of the agreement. The name of the agreement is not relevant. Instead, the overall picture of the circumstances is decisive. This is the result of the judgement of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Frankfurt am Main of 8 July 2025 (Case...

If a manufacturer of personal protective equipment within the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 (PPE Regulation) engages a testing company as part of the conformity assessment procedure for its products, it must accept responsibility for any fraudulent conduct on the part of that testing company. This has been decided by the ruling...

The daily press has already reported on the Federal Court of Justice’s “Birkenstock sandals” decision (judgement of February 20, 2025, case no. I ZR 16/24). For example, the F.A.Z. wrote on February 20, 2025: “‘Birkenstock sandals are not works of art and therefore do not enjoy copyright protection’, decided the highest German civil judges.” Many...