Analysis, jurisdiction guides and product notes for practitioners working across EU and national law — written by the team building OmniLaw.
A Cyprus Supreme Court civil appeal decided 21 January 2026 holds that a buyer who paid €250,000 for property that the primary seller never delivered has a separate, enforceable contractual claim against a third-party company whose conditional fall-back obligation was activated once the primary seller failed.
CySEC Circular C771 sets the May 8 deadline for all authorised CASPs to submit Form RBSF-CASP Version 3 via TRS — including non-operational entities.
Winning an annulment of an administrative act in Cyprus does not automatically yield damages. The Court of Appeal's January 2026 ruling sets out precisely what a plaintiff must still prove — and what the civil court may not re-examine.
Cyprus EPA unanimously cleared DP World's acquisition of Herport SAS under Law 83(I)/2014, applying the SIEC test to a cross-border logistics deal with a Limassol nexus.
A CySEC enforcement action for market abuse was annulled not on its merits but because the Chairwoman who signed it had a personal financial relationship with the bank she was sanctioning.
The Cyprus EPA dismissed a complaint against a 6-month food delivery exclusivity clause, finding no appreciable restriction on competition despite an agreement existing.
A Cyprus Court of Appeal ruling from January 2026 confirms that the right of support attaches to land alone — not to buildings erected on it.
CySEC Circular C763 introduced a new Sectoral Risk Assessment Form requiring every authorised regulated entity to self-score 14 AML/CFT control questions on a 1–10 scale and submit via TRS by 17 April 2026. What the Form reveals about CySEC's supervisory priorities.
CySEC Circular C776 adopts ESMA's LMT Guidelines, requiring Cyprus UCITS and AIF managers to select at least two liquidity management tools after a suitability assessment.
An insurance agent's commission claim turns on proving actual intermediation as a question of fact. The Cyprus Supreme Court dismissed the appeal on the evidence.
A summary that drops the instrument numbers, the dates, and the cross-references cannot be acted on or verified. For practitioners, the citation is not a footnote. It is the deliverable.
CySEC Circular C756 confirms that MiCA authorisation may not be enough: EMT services that qualify as payment services pull CASPs into PSD2 and CBC licensing.
A short Friday digest of what changed across EUR-Lex, Cyprus and Austria — plus the posts worth your time. No noise.
