New pre-contractual disclosure requirements apply before entering into fran…
On 21 September 2024, the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Belgian Competitio…
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Le 9 janvier 2016, le Règlement relatif au RLLC1 (règlement en ligne des litiges de consommation) est entré en vigueur.2 Ce Règlement RLLC entend perm…
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On 22 April 2016, the European Commission published commitments that were offered by Paramount Pictures to address competition concerns rela…
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EU Court of Justice recently confirmed, in a judgement of 16 March 2016 1 , that a number of health claims related to glucose cannot be auth…
Read MoreThe Commission is likely to abandon the proposed merger control reform that would place minority shareholdings under the Commission’s scrutiny. During…
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Par son arrêt du 17 mars 2016, la Cour constitutionnelle a partiellement annulé la loi belge relative à l’action en réparation collective1 (titre 2 du…
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On 6 April 2016, the European Commission announced that it had reduced the fine imposed on Société Générale for its participation in the Euro interest…
Read MoreRyanair and its marketing subsidiary, Airport Marketing Services ("AMS"), lodged an annulment request before the EU General Court on 5 February 2016 a…
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En 2015, la réglementation belge relative aux annonces de réduction de prix a été abrogée1. De ce fait, seules les règles générales en matière de prat…
Read MoreIn last week's Opinion, the Advocate General concluded that the obligation to draw up cross-border invoices exclusively in Dutch, failing which they a…
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In the EU, geographical indications of wines and spirits are protected under Regulation (EC) No 110/2008.1Pursuant to that regulation, it is prohibite…
Read MoreOne of the companies, Exide Technologies, made use of the leniency programme and denounced the practice in late 2013, in exchange for total immunity.&…
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In navolging van andere Europese landen zoals bijvoorbeeld Frankrijk, werd een aantal weken geleden een wetsvoorstel gelanceerd in de Kamer dat wijzig…
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On 10 March 2016, the Constitutional Court (Grondwettelijk Hof/Cour constitutionnelle) held that a non-contractual civil damages claim based on an inf…
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After a series of inspections, the Commission initiated formal proceedings at the end of 2010 against several cement companies. In the framework of su…
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On 22 March 2016, the new Belgian Leniency Guidelines (the "Guidelines") entered into force. They apply to all leniency applications su…
Read MoreThe European Commission has adopted several recent decisions on State aid relating to the port sector. Firstly, on 15 January 2016, the Commiss…
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On 18 March 2016, the European Commission published its initial findings on the existence of geo-blocking practices in the e-commerce sector. Thi…
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On 10 March 2016, the Court of Justice ruled that the European Commission's requests for information addressed to several cement companies d…
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Last 18th March, the Commission published an initial “Issues paper” on geo-blocking in the EU within the framework of the ongoing e-commerce sector in…
Read MoreRecent werd het Europees Hof van Justitie via een prejudiciële vraag, gesteld door de Roemeense districtsrechtbank te Oradea, verzocht te oordelen of …
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