Special Information Briefing COVID-19 (No. 23): Royal Decree-law 19/2020 adopting additional agricultural, scientific, economic, employment, social security and tax measures

On 27 May 2020, Royal Decree-law 19/2020 of 26 May was published in the Official State Bulletin, adopting additional agricultural, scientific, economic, employment, social security and tax measures to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 (RDL 19/2020). The RDL establishes a new package of measures in different areas, which extend and enhance those already adopted by means of the Royal Decree-laws approved in recent months, as well as Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declared the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, and their respective extensions.

In this legal briefing, we analyse the corporate, tax, financial, and employment measures provided for by RDL 19/2020.

Corporate measures

The eighth final provision of RDL 19/2020 amends Article 40 of Royal Decree-law 8/2020 of 17 March on extraordinary urgent measures to deal with the economic and social impact of COVID-19 (“RDL 8/2020”), which established extraordinary regulations on the deadlines for the preparation, verification, and approval of the annual accounts of private-law legal entities that do not fall within the scope of Article 41 of that law, which relates to listed companies.

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