Law No. 14.010/2020, that institutes transitory and emergency rules for the regulation of legal relationships of private law impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, was published on June 12^th, 2020.

Considering its transitory nature, the law expressly states that the rules temporarily suspended shall not be deemed revoked or altered.

Furthermore, March 20^th, 2020 is considered the initial term of the events arising from the coronavirus pandemic and the transitory regime established by the law applies until October 30^th, 2020.

Amongst the aspects addressed by Law No. 14.010/2020, we enhance the following:

– Statute of limitations: statute of limitations is considered impeded or suspended during the transitory regime;

– General meeting: legal entities of private law are allowed to carry out its general meetings by electronic means, regardless of express provision on its articles of incorporation – important to bear in mind that Provisional Measure No. 931/2020 also addresses rules for limited liability companies, corporations and cooperatives in this regard;

– Consumer relations: the right of (unmotivated) retraction provided by article 49 of the Consumer Defense Code has its application suspended in cases of delivery of perishable or immediate consumption products or medicines;

– Adverse possession: the term for adverse possession is suspended;

– Condominium meetings: condominium meetings are allowed to be carried out by virtual means and, if it is not possible to do so, the receiver’s mandates expired as of March 20^th, 2020 shall be considered extended;

– Antitrust: rules that considers the selling of goods or provision of service bellow cost price, the ceasing of corporate activities without cause and concentration acts resulting from the execution of an association contract, consortium or joint venture by two or more legal entities as a violation of the economic order are considered without legal effect. Furthermore, when assessing other violations of the economic order, the extraordinary circumstances arising from the coronavirus pandemic shall be considered;

– Family and inheritance law: civil imprisonment for debt shall be executed exclusively by means of house-arrest. Moreover, the initial term of the two months period for the commencement of the inventory and partition process related to successions opened as of February 1^st, 2020 was postponed to October 30^th, 2020. Also, the twelve months period for the conclusion of the inventory and partition process, if initiated before February 1^st, 2020, is suspended until October 30^th, 2020;

– Data protection: the initial application of the administrative sanctions provided by the General Data Protection Act (GDPA) is postponed to August 1^st, 2021.

Several provisions of the bill were vetoed by the President, such as the limitation of eviction orders.

Law No. 14.010/2020 was effective as of its publication.