The Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 of the European Parlia…
Often misunderstood and definitely underused, EU design law is about to rec…
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Every independent entrepreneur, undertaking, family business shall be confronted sooner or later with the difficult question regarding the future of t…
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The Commission has taken a new step in revising the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (the "TTBER") and its accompanying guidelines (the …
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As usual, the end of 2012 brought about its share of reforms in the area of taxation. Following a tense budget meeting, due to politically sensitive i…
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On 20 December 2012, the Belgian Constitutional Court rendered an important judgment which will certainly have significant consequences for large comp…
Read MoreLe processus de révision des lignes directrices à finalité régionale est en marche. Les futures lignes directrices devront tenir compte du contexte de…
Read MoreThe European Commission has imposed a fine of EUR 67 million on Telefonica, the Spanish telecom provider, for illegal agreements with its Portuguese c…
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La délimitation du champ d'application de la directive 2005/29/CE sur les pratiques commerciales déloyales des entreprises vis-à-vis des consom…
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On 7 February 2013, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled on a reference from the Slovakian Supreme Court in a case concerning three major Slova…
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The recently introduced new corporate income tax on certain capital gains on shares (cf. our e-zine of 14 March 2013), does not change the current tax…
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On 13 February 2013, in pursuit of its aim to clarify the current regulatory framework, the European Commission (the “Commission”) proposed a new legi…
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Le 7 mars 2013, la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne (« CJUE ») a rendu un arrêt dans l'affaire Wheels Common Investment Fund Trustees e.a. (C-424…
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed, in case C-275/11 GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH dated 7 March 2013, that fund…
Read MoreOn 12 December 2012, the Commission published an Issues Paper which identifies the most relevant areas for reflection regarding the revision of the Fr…
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Eind 2012 werden tal van nieuwe fiscale maatregelen van kracht. Een belangrijke nieuwe maatregel is de verplichting tot aangifte van buitenlandse leve…
Read MoreThe European Commission recently established the European Service Innovation Centre (ESIC) to support regions in the design of better policies to tran…
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On 11 January 2013, the European Commission published the non-confidential version of the commitments in the Universal Music Group / EMI merger. The c…
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On 22 January 2013, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") handed down its judgment in the case of the Commission v Tomkins (Case C-286/11).
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At the end of January 2013, after one year of Di Rupo I government, not less than seven new tax laws have already been issued, partly to repair the pr…
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As part of its broader State Aid Modernisation initiative (previously reported in Stibbe's Competition Law Newsletter of June 2012), the Commission on…
Read MoreFollowing commitments made by four international publishers and Apple, the European Commission decided on 13 December 2012 to close its investigation …
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