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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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22/10/25
Simplifying Rules for Listed Companies

Belgium proposes a draft law to simplify disclosure, marketing, and meeting…

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20/10/25
EU Cybersecurity Month: Protecting your business from invest…

EU Cybersecurity Month is an annual awareness campaign held every October t…

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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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Means, Other Than Safe Harbor, of Transferring Personal Data to the U.S. Potentially Vitiated?

After the decision of October 6, 2015, of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) invalidating the decision from the EU Commission (Decision 2000/520) o…

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Betaald educatief verlof en terugbetaling aan de werkgever: Vlaanderen kondigt wijzigingen aan

Het Vlaams Gewest deelt op zijn website de wijzigingen mee die in het kader van betaald educatief verlof van toepassing zullen zijn vanaf het schoolja…

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Are Uber Drivers Self-Employed Contractors or Employees?

The vexed question whether or not Uber drivers are self-employed contractors draws scrutiny around the world.

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Is Your App a Greedy One?

The 2014 and 2015 sweeps performed by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network ("GPEN"), an informal network of 57 privacy enforcement authorities in 43…

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Non-competition clauses: should using sledgehammers to crack nuts be allowed?

The Belgian High Court seems to be allowing for the severability of non-competition clauses. Instead of completely setting aside an invalid non-compet…

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Het "recht op arbeid" van werkwilligen

De titel van deze bijdrage wekt ongetwijfeld de verwachting dat het besproken cassatiearrest handelt over het recht van werknemers die niet deeln…

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Fiscale regularisatie anno 2016: de krachtlijnen van de nieuwe regeling

Enige tijd geleden werd aangekondigd dat de regering Michel I een nieuwe permanente regularisatie wenste in te voeren. Aanvankelijk was deze nieuwe fi…

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Practice note on exemption method for foreign employment income incompatible with EU Law - update

Last year, the Belgian tax authorities published a practice note after Belgium was sentenced by the European Court of Justice for breaching EU law wit…

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Belgian Competition Authority Fines Belgian National Lottery for Abuse of its Dominant Position

On 23 September 2015, the College of Competition Prosecutors (Auditoraat / Auditorat) of the Belgian Competition Authority (Belgische Mededingingsauto…

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Be careful when it comes to your Belgian distributor

Imagine that an internal study has demonstrated that your current distribution set-up in Europe is seriously out of date. High-end products have …

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A new judgment in the debate on the limits to the right to strike

A Judgment by the Court of Appeal of Mons dated 20 May 2015 rekindles the debate on the boundaries of what is meant by  the « normal exercis…

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Invalidation of Safe Harbour for EU-US data transfers – Sequel

With the ‘Schrems’ judgment of the EU Court of Justice of 6 October 2015, the CJEU declared the decision of the European Commission, establi…

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Zijn adblockers effectief diefstal?

Vorige week toonden de online kranten in België zich bijzonder strijdlustig tegen de aan populariteit winnende adblocker software. Een juridisch prece…

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European Court of Justice landmark decision of 6 October 2015 brings an end to Safe Harbour

Earlier this week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its long-awaited ruling in the case of Maximilan Schrems v. Irish Data Pro…

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Tweede verblijf in Frankrijk in een SCI-vennootschap - Franse Hof van Cassatie doet belangrijke uitspraak

In het raam van behoud van controle en successieplanning wordt Frans onroerend goed regelmatig aangekocht via een SCI. Een SCI is een burgerlijke venn…

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Constitutional Court: absence of real estate buyers’ right to withdraw is legal when sale is outside the selle…

One of the protection measures in consumer law is to grant consumers the right to withdraw when signing an agreement outside the (professional) seller…

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Grondwettelijk Hof: Bank- en verzekeringsagenten behoeven niet de bescherming van de wet op de precontractuele…

Titel 2 van Boek X van het Wetboek van Economisch Recht legt verregaande precontractuele verplichtingen op (met inbegrip van een wachttermijn van één …

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Bill Amending Code of Economic Law

On 27 August 2015, the Belgian government submitted a bill to the Chamber of Representatives that amends in various respects the Code of Economic Law …

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Tijdsbeperkingen in aandeelhoudersovereenkomsten inzake een NV

Een aantal bepalingen in een aandeelhoudersovereenkomst zijn aan strikte wettelijke voorwaarden onderworpen, naast uiteraard de voorwaarden die gelden…

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The Commission approves the acquisition of Irish airline Aer Lingus by International Consolidated Airlines Gro…

On 14 July 2015, the European Commission approved the acquisition of Irish airline Aer Lingus by International Consolidated Airlines Group ("IAG"), su…

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