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14/08/25
14/08/25
Legal tech company Afriwise acquires LawExplorer and boosts regulatory intelligence in Africa

Afriwise, Africa’s fastest-growing legal-intelligence platform founded by Belgian lawyer Steven De Backer, has acquired LawExplorer, South Africa’s most established provider of reg…

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05/05/25
05/05/25
Promotions at Clifford Chance Brussels

Clifford Chance announces the promotion of 31 partners to the global partnership, and four new Senior Counsel and forty new Counsel appointments across our European offices, 8 of w…

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19/11/24
19/11/24
Liberius welcomes new EU Competition and Trade Law Partner in Brussels

Liberius is thrilled to announce the arrival of David Henry as a Partner in its Brussels-based EU, Competition & Trade Practice. David, a member of the Brussels Bar and a quali…

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06/10/25
EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) proposed delay: What busi…

On 23 September 2025, the European Commission announced its plan to postpon…

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01/10/25
Shrinkflation – are brands and supermarkets required to info…

As inflation continues to exert pressure on retail prices, brands and super…

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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

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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10/01/14
Belgian Competition Authority Adopts Guidelines on Conduct of Inspections

On 24 December 2013, the Board of Directors of the Belgian Competition Authority (“BCA”) published in the Belgian Official Journal (Belgisch Staatsbla…

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09/01/14
Belgian Competition Authority Issues Guidelines for Dawn Raids

When investigating violations of competition law, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") can carry out unannounced on-site inspections at the premi…

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03/01/14
New Chapter XIII “Consultation”, in the Code of Economic Law

On 14 November 2013, the bill inserting Chapter XIII "Consultation" in the Code of Economic Law was adopted by Parliament; its goal is to rewrite the …

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01/01/14
Sales and the new bill regarding market practices

The new bill of 24 September 2013 regarding market practices contains some clarifications about sales, with the aim of ending the discussion about the…

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23/12/13
NIEUW WETBOEK ECONOMISCH RECHT

Zoals reeds aangekondigd in onze vorige e-zine, gaat de publicatie en inwerkingtreding van de verschillende boeken van het Wetboek Economisch Recht do…

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06/12/13
Caisses d’assurance maladie soumises à la directive relative aux pratiques commerciales déloyales : quid des a…

Il a longtemps été admis que les réglementations européenne et belge relatives aux pratiques commerciales s’appliquaient uniquement aux autorités pour…

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28/11/13
A national prohibition on the publication of sponsored articles not identified by the term “advertisement” is …

Within a dispute between two German newspapers the ECJ was again asked to bring clarification over the scope of the Directive 2005/29 concerning unfai…

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25/11/13
The Commercial Practices Act inserted in the new Code of Economic Law

On 24 September 2013, the Belgian government introduced a new bill in the Chamber of Representatives regarding the insertion of commercial practices a…

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22/11/13
Nouveau projet de loi relative aux pratiques du marché et à la protection du consommateur déposée au Parlement…

Le 24 septembre 2013 a été déposé au Parlement un nouveau projet de loi portant insertion du Livre VI « Pratiques du marché et protection du consommat…

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20/11/13
Bill to Insert Book on Market Practices and Consumer Protection in New Commercial Code – What Is New?

On 24 September 2013, the government submitted a bill to the Chamber of Representatives to insert a Book VI entitled “Market Practices and Consumer Pr…

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06/11/13
COMBATING DELAYED PAYMENTS … BELGIUM’S DELAYED RESPONSE

Heavy administrative and financial burdens are placed on businesses, particularly small and medium-sized ones, as a result of excessive payment period…

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01/11/13
No cartel in the organisation of the mad cow disease test

Belgium Competition Council drops price-fixing probe into lab testing for mad cow disease.

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31/10/13
Competition Authority

The new Belgian Competition Authority, which replaces the Competition Council, formally started its operations on Friday 6 September 2013.

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31/10/13
Dutch Competition Authority concludes that elements in the Dutch “Energy Agreement” violate competition rules

On 6 September 2013, Dutch private and (semi-) public organizations entered into the "Energy Agreement for promotion of sustainable growth".

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30/10/13
ACM publishes fining decisions in a cartel between real estate traders

On 12 September 2013, the Authority for Consumers and Markets ("ACM") published non-confidential versions of its decisions by which it fined 79 real e…

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23/10/13
General Court reduced fines but confirmed Commission's finding of a single, continuous and complex infringemen…

On 16 September 2013, the General Court ("GC") ruled on the appeals against the Commission's decision of 23 June 2010 on the bathroom fixtures and fit…

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22/10/13
Minister Vande Lanotte Sheds Light on Prospective Rules Governing Sales at a Loss

In his response of 4 September 2013 to a written parliamentary question, the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Johan Vande Lanotte, has given insight in …

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11/10/13
Most Favoured Nation provisions increasingly investigated by European Competition Authorities

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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24/09/13
Brussels Court of Appeal Rules on Misleading Comparative Advertising

On 27 and 28 June 2013, the Brussels Court of Appeal (the “Court of Appeal”) delivered two judgments in relation to misleading comparative advertising…

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13/09/13
New Belgian competition act enters into force

The amended Competition Act constitutes Book IV of the new Code of Business and Economic Law (Wetboek van economisch recht/Code de droit économique).

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