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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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PPP PROJECTS MUST OBSERVE INDEPENDENCE OF ARCHITECT

On October 22, 2013 the Council of State has rendered two judgments that are highly relevant for local PPP projects (nr. 225.191 and 225.192).

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New Act on Trust Accounts Held by Lawyers, Notaries and Bailiffs

On 10 December 2013, a new act was published in the Belgian State Gazette concerning the trust accounts (kwaliteitsrekeningen/comptes de qualité) held…

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Social security contributions charged on some compensation for special protected employees: the government too…

Since 1 October 2013 social security contributions must be paid on almost all (severance) payments that are due by the employer based on the terminati…

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Europe has fined a group of banks a total amount of €1.7 billion for manipulation of interest rates

The European Commission has imposed a record fine of €1.71 billion on eight financial institutions for participating in cartels in order to manipulate…

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Iran back in business?

Iran counts almost 78 million inhabitants and showed an economic growth of 6 to 8% on average between 2006 and 2008. Economic growth has dropped in th…

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Living in your own region” and “social obligations” measures annulled: what’s next?

In two judgments issued on 7 November 2013, the Belgian Constitutional Court annulled the so-called “living in your own region” and “social obligation…

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Dutch Supreme Court ruled against statutory conversion of anticompetitive effect clauses

On 20 December 2013, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the "statutory conversion" provision in the Dutch Civil Code does not apply to clauses that ha…

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THE “RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN” AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INTERNET INTERMEDIARIES

On November 6, a Paris Court ordered Google to filter out hyperlinks to images of former F1 boss Max Mosley in an allegedly Nazi-themed sadomasochisti…

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First draft decision of the Prosecution body of the Belgian Competition Authority regarding Electrabel

The Prosecution body filed on 29 November 2013 a draft decision to the President of the Belgian Competition Authority concerning the practices of Elec…

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General Court confirmed that high market shares (80-90%) do not necessarily equal market power in innovative m…

On 11 December 2013, the Commission's approval of Microsoft's acquisition of Skype survived a challenge brought by two competing producers of internet…

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The sixth reform of the Belgian state : what will change for the energy sector ?

The sixth reform of the Belgian State has been recently voted in the federal parliament. This reform includes the modification of the Special Act and,…

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Wat brengt de fiscus in 2014?

Het Marlex-team wenst iedereen een gezond en voorspoedig 2014.

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Reporting obligation and tax transparency of foreign legal structures – Report on the current situation at mi…

As announced in our newsletter of 25 November 2013, the Belgian government was planning to introduce, as from 1 January 2014, a tax transparency …

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THE UNIFIED STATUS

For all employees whose employment contracts are terminated from 1 January 2014, a new redundancy scheme with uniform notice periods shall apply. This…

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No compulsory partition in case of voluntary co-ownership: Matter closes

By a judgment dated 20 September 2013, the Belgian Supreme Court has decided that article 815 of the Civil Code, by which a co-owner can force the par…

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Use of “Claeys” Formula For Dismissals Abolished on 1 January 2014

The social stakeholders reached an agreement to harmonise the white collar and blue collar employee regimes (See, VBB on Belgian Business Law, Volume …

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The Council of State annuls the obligation of solidarity between an architect and a builder (art. 51, §2, of t…

Consortium without legal personality – Solidarity – Architect – Builder – Independence – Nullity

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UPC Agreement (European Patent) : soon time for legislators and undertakings to take decisions

The UPC Agreement is a convention concluded between 25 Member States and which installs a unified patent court. With two regulations adopted by the Eu…

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IN PIRATE BAY CASE, BELGIAN SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS LAWFULNESS OF GENERIC IP BLOCKING INJUNCTIONS

By the judgment rendered on 22 October 2013 in the Belgian version of the long-lasting The Pirate Bay saga, the Belgian Court of Cassation (Belgium’s …

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Court of Justice held that national legislation imposing an obligation to participate in a scheme of compulsor…

On 12 December 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in Ministero dello Sviluppo economico v. SOA Nazionale Costrutt…

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