March 2025 – Kinstellar is delighted to announce that Harald Strahberger has joined our newly launched Vienna office as a Partner. His addition strengthens our public law and regulatory capabilities, further enhancing the firm’s expertise in Austria...
February 2025 – It has become standard practice in Hungary for solar power plants to be developed on greenfield agricultural land owned by third parties. Due to legal restrictions regarding the use of agricultural land, developers are unable to acquire...
February 2025 – Kinstellar hosted a special webinar event on 11 February 2025, focusing on the latest status of transposition of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in Central and Eastern Europe as well as some other legal and regulatory...
February 2025 – The European Parliament and the European Council formally adopted Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste (“PPWR”) on 16 December 2024, as part of a comprehensive review of packaging obligations in line with the...
January 2025 – The past year has seen a flurry of regulatory developments related to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), particularly in the alignment of climate, environmental and reporting rules across the Central and Eastern Europe and Central...
December 2024 – On 26 January 2025, the Technical Regulation on the Safety of Chemical Products, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in July 2024, will come into force. The Regulation introduces rules for the registration of chemicals and...
November 2024 – The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (EU) 2022/2464 (the “CSRD”) required EU member states to complete its transposition by 6 July 2024. However, uneven implementation led the EU Commission to initiate infringement proceedings...
CSRD implementation uneven a month before deadline
May 2024 – Kinstellar has successfully advised leading developer BIG Mega Renewable Energy on a EUR 92 million financing agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and OTP Bank to build and operate the 102 MW Urleasca wind...
CSRD implementation: regional progress uneven as deadline draws near