In a decision of 7 October 2025, the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data…
Recent French judgments from the Nantes Judicial Court have drawn a clear l…
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In its judgment of 13 September 2013 (Case T-380/08), the General Court upheld a Commission decision denying the Kingdom of the Netherlands ("the Neth…
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New, more flexible measures governing working time entered into force. These are the Law of 17 August 2013 regarding the modernisation of the labour l…
Read MoreThe Court of Cassation has adapted its case law concerning the originality of a copyright-protected work following recent case law of the Court of Jus…
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Initially, temporary work was instituted in the law as a means to cope with exceptional working situations. An employer was only allowed to make use o…
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Will the collective claim be able to win the enthusiasm of the citizens?
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De huurovereenkomst bepaalt dat de plaatsbeschrijving bij uittrede huur door dezelfde expert zal worden opgesteld als deze die bij de plaatsbeschrijvi…
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Today the Article 29 Working Party ("WP29")[1] published a working document on how consent for cookies may be obtained. The WP29's opinions and w…
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On September 27 2013 the Council of Ministers approved a draft bill introducing a unified status for blue-collar and white-collar workers. Although th…
Read MoreOn 27 March 2013, the European Commission adopted proposals to revise the Community Trademark Regulation and the Trademark Directive aimed at modernis…
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New measures have been introduced against dormant companies to fight both social and tax fraud and avoid such companies being used to conduct illicit …
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In its decision of 7 July 2011, the Constitutional Court allowed two years time to the legislator to undo the differences in the status of blue-collar…
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The Laws of 30 and 31 July 2013 increasing the protection of purchasers of financial products and services and broadening the competences of the finan…
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On 10 September 2013, the Vice-President of the Court of Justice published an order in Commission v Pilkington, upholding the interim measures granted…
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The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a directive to facilitate damages claims before the courts of the EU Member States by parties harme…
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Yesterday (october 9th), a royal decree was published in the Belgian State Gazette which, in short, amends and further specifies the rules r…
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Following on from what happened earlier in the Netherlands and France, security law has now also been thoroughly modernised in Belgium.
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Most Favoured Nation ("MFN") provisions have come under increased scrutiny of European competition authorities. MFN provisions, also referred to as "p…
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A new royal decree was published today in the Belgian State Gazette [1], providing that several termination indemnities will be subject to social secu…
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The Act of 17 December 2008 makes it compulsory for some types of companies to set up an audit committee, whereas, in the past, this was only highly r…
Read MoreThe Belgian government has recently adopted Book XI of the new Code of economic law. Book XI deals with the intellectual property rights and will soon…
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