Montenegro

New Montenegrin Labour Act introduces important changes to the regulation of employment.

BDK Advokati’s partner Luka Popovic spoke about challenges facing the private sector in enforcement of international contracts during a judicial workshop on enforcement of international sales contracts. The workshop was organised on 24-25 October by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), and the U.S. Embassy in Montenegro. The workshop is part of CLDP’s technical assistance in Montenegro in the area of judicial capacity building, aimed to improve the legal environment for doing business.

The condo-hotel concept was firstly introduced in the Tourism Act of 2010. It was further refined in the 2018 Tourism and Hospitality Act. The main feature of the condo hotel is that, unlike in traditional hotels, the accommodation units (i.e. apartments) within the condo hotel are sellable as individual units – one can own an individual accommodation unit within a hotel. Under the 2010 legislation, the concept of condo hotels was under-regulated as the law merely provided for a definition of the condo hotel, recognizing it as a special hotel type, and introduced the possibility of ownership over the hotel’s individual units. The new 2018 legislation is more detailed. It recognizes separate notions of “condo business model” and “mixed business model”. To qualify for either status, a hotel must be in operation throughout the year and must either have a minimum five-star rating and be located in the coastal region or in the capital Podgorica or have a minimum four-star rating and be located in the northern and central region excluding Podgorica.