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AVOCATS.BE travaille depuis plus d’un an à la création d’une campagne de communication, de promotion, osons le mot, de l’avocat(e) à l’instar des campagnes radiophoniques passées a…

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Liselot Claeys joins law firm Liedekerke as Counsel

Leading independent law firm Liedekerke is pleased to announce the addition of Liselot Claeys as Counsel to its Corporate & Finance practice.

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Monard strengthens its Insolvency and Restructuring team

Monard law welcomes a new member to its Insolvency and Restructuring team. Jente Dengler has joined the firm as of October 1, 2024.

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26/11/24
VAT refunds and compliance: from 2025, you better be complia…

In 2025, the processing of periodic VAT returns (the “VAT chain”) will chan…

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23/11/24
The Court of Appeal in the Hague rules on the Shell case: ke…

On November 12, 2024, the international community closely followed the Cour…

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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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Entry into force of EU trade mark reform package

EU trade mark reform is finally happening, as on 15 December 2015 the EU trade mark reform package was adopted by the European Parliament.

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L'Europe se dote d'un nouvel outil pour assurer la cyber-sécurité

Fin décembre 2015, le Conseil et le Parlement européen sont parvenus à un accord sur le projet de directive dite "cyber-sécurité".  Le texte fina…

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Le projet de loi relatif aux marchés publics a été déposé au Parlement

Le 4 janvier dernier, le projet de loi relatif aux marchés publics a été déposé à la Chambre. Il est consultable, depuis cette semaine, sur le site in…

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EU and US reach agreement on new Safe Harbour

Yesterday it was announced that the EU and the US have reached a political agreement on Safe Harbour, the "EU-US Privacy Shield". The previous Sa…

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Important changes concerning supplementary pensions

The Act of 18 December 2015 was published in the Belgian Official Gazette of 24 December 2015, providing the following measures concerning s…

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Lot van lopende overeenkomsten tijdens een faillissement

Een faillissement maakt in beginsel geen einde aan een bestaande overeenkomst. De wet bepaalt evenwel dat de curator kan beslissen of hij de overeenko…

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Failure to submit a notification as an electronic communication service provider does not constitute a violati…

Pursuant to article 9 of the Act of 13 June 2005 on electronic communications (the “Act”), an electronic communication service provider (the “service …

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Transitional period for EU-US data flows expires on 31 January 2016

In October 2015, we reported on the invalidation by the European Court of Justice of the “Safe Harbour” regime for personal data exports from the EU t…

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New draft legislation published on the status and supervision of insurance or reinsurance companies

The legislation on insurance and reinsurance companies is currently split into two parts: the Act of 9 July 1975 on the control of insurance companies…

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Is the employer allowed, as of now, to monitor emails of the employees?

On 12 January 2016, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a widely commented judgment  in Case B?RBULESCU v. ROMANIA – Application n° 6149…

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Warm-Up to the GDPR

Now that the holidays are behind us, with the exception of a belated New Year's drink here and there, it's business as usual and thus time to dig a li…

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Data Protection Alert

In October 2015, we reported on the invalidation by the European Court of Justice of the “Safe Harbour” regime for personal data exports from the EU t…

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Lekken van medische gegevens

Medische gegevens van maar liefst 150.000 onderzoeken binnen de Emmaüs-groep zouden zijn uitgelekt. Het Nederlandse consumentenprogramma “Meldpunt” kw…

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Wijziging definitie kleine en microvennootschappen: invloed op de vrijstelling van doorstorting voor startende…

Bepaalde fiscale voordelen zijn enkel van toepassing op kleine en/of microvennootschappen. Een nieuwe wet heeft beide begrippen nu een nieuwe definiti…

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Aanpassing rendementsgarantie

De meest besproken maatregel uit de Wet tot waarborging van de duurzaamheid en het sociale karakter van de aanvullende pensioenen en tot versterking v…

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Court of Cassation definitively confirms Yahoo!’s obligation to cooperate with law enforcement agencies

On 1 December 2015, the Court of Cassation dismissed an appeal lodged by Yahoo! against the ruling of the Court of Appeal of Antwerpen of 20 November …

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The General Court of the EU has annulled the European Commission’s decision declaring that part of the Spanish…

The General Court of the EU has annulled the European Commission’s decision declaring that part of the Spanish Tax Lease System constituted a state ai…

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Belgian Competition Authority imposes fine for gun-jumping in merger control procedure

The Belgian Competition Authority recently published its decision on the acquisition by Cordeel Group (a general contractor company) of the Belgian ac…

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Toegelaten arbeid van gepensioneerden: bedragen voor het jaar 2016

Een gepensioneerde mag tot een bepaald bedrag per jaar bijverdienen. Het grensbedrag hangt af van de leeftijd van de persoon en het bestaan kinderen t…

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Mag een werkgever e-mails van een werknemer lezen?

In de recente pers zijn berichten verschenen over de vraag of werkgevers de e-mails van hun werknemers mogen lezen. De directe aanleiding voor deze be…

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