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België en VK versterken samenwerking tussen balies na Brexit.

Op 29 september 2025 heeft de Orde van Vlaamse Balies samen met Avocats.be en de twee Brusselse balies enerzijds en de balies en law societies van het Verenigd Koninkrijk (Engeland…

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Liberius welcomes Ana Jankov as new partner

Liberius is proud to welcome Ana Jankov as a partner, further strengthening the firm’s expertise in privacy, data protection and emerging digital regulation.

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ABILWAYS Belgium devient SKOLAE Training

ABILWAYS Belgium annonce son changement d’identité et devient SKOLAE Training. Cette évolution s’inscrit dans le cadre du rapprochement d’ABILWAYS et de M2I, donnant naissance à SK…

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28/10/25
Brussels Enterprise Court Dismisses Trade Mark Infringement …

On 18 September 2025, the President of the Dutch-language Enterprise Court …

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27/10/25
Inkijk in de administratieve boetebeslissingen van de FOD Ec…

Sinds 2021 heeft de FOD Economie de mogelijkheid om ondernemingen die inbre…

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It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Belgian and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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EU Court Holds that Appeal by Test-Aankoop/Test-Achats Against Commission’s EDF/Segebel Merger Decision is Ina…

On 12 October 2011, the General Court held that an appeal by Belgian consumer organization Test-Aankoop/Test-Achats ("TA") against the European Commis…

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Anything posted on Facebook can be used against you

On 17 November 2011, the Leuven labour court ruled in favour of the lawful dismissal for serious cause of an employee who posted comments on Facebook …

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Réforme du financement des pensions des fonctionnaires nommés au niveau local

La plupart des administrations provinciales et locales (ex.: les provinces, les communes, les intercommunales, les CPAS) financent la pension légale d…

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Salary thresholds 2012 published

The indexed salary thresholds have been published in the Belgian Official Gazette of 22 November 2011. The new amounts for 2012 are 31.467 EUR, 37.721…

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Case Scarlet

In its ruling of the 24th of November, in the case Scarlet Extended SA v SABAM (C-70/10), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) stated tha…

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Flanders introduces new rules on the tax free transfer of family businesses

The Flemish Government has recently introduced a Project Act concerning the 2012 budget with the Flemish Parliament. This Project Act also includes ne…

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Replacement of public holidays in 2012 – be on time !

In Belgium, employees are not allowed to work on 10 official public holidays per year. In 2012, the 10 official public holidays will be as follows:

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New notice periods as from 2012 and harmonization of the blue-collar workers & the white-collar workers’ s…

The new notice periods are specified in the Act of 12 April 20111 , adopted as a result of the rejection by the unions of the draft Inter-professional…

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Focus on Social Elections Step By Step

The social elections for the designation of the representatives of the workers at the works’ council (“WC”) and the committee for prevention and prote…

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Social security agreement between Belgium and Argentina

Belgium and Argentina recently signed a social security agreement which has been submitted for ratification. This agreement will have major consequenc…

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Reforms to EU’s GSP scheme discussed in European Parliament trade committee

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Important Changes to the Financial Collateral Act

Since the entry into force of the Financial Collateral Act of 15 December 2004 (the "Collateral Act") implementing Directive 2002/47/EC on financial c…

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Complex procurements: also through competitive dialogue

The highly anticipated measures establishing the competitive dialogue procedure for public procurement were published in the Belgian Official Journal …

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Women’s quota in Belgian Corporate Law

Published on 14 September 2011, the Law of 28 July 2011 (1) (hereafter “the Law”) guarantees women a minimum representation percentage in the board of…

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Silence is not always golden: consequences of not reporting an aggravation of a risk

Not informing the insurer about an aggravation of a risk could, upon an occurrence of the risk, entitle the insurer to reduce cover by reference to th…

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The wilful misconduct of the insured: discussion and consequences

Insurers often attempt to challenge the insurance coverage by raising the argument of wilful misconduct committed by the insured. Discussions mainly f…

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Insurers vs pension funds

While the implementation of the Solvency 2 directive is likely to be postponed until 1 January 2014, insurers and pension funds are lobbying the Europ…

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Transfer of enterprise under the authority of the court: some new rules!

The CLA nr. 102 set up some new rules regarding the rights of employees in the event transfer of enterprise under the authority of the court.

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Discrimination based on age: new case law of the Court of Justice

A system of pay leading to discrimination on the grounds of age, which will be replaced by a system of pay based on objective criteria (but maintains,…

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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 7 July 2011

The distinctions between blue and white collars are contrary to Articles 10 and 11 of the Constitution since they are no longer justified in an object…

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