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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!
This December 15, the EU Commission, Parliament and the Council reached an agreement, via the so called "trilogue" meetings on EU data protection refo…
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On 15th December 2015, the European Parliament has approved the trademark reform package. The purpose of this package, consisting in one directive (t…
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A lot has been written about two recent court cases related to Facebook. The first one is the decision of 6 October in the case of the Austrian studen…
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In een acht jaar aanslepend dispuut tussen de Belgische justitie en het Amerikaans internetbedrijf Yahoo! heeft het Hof van Cassatie definitief geoord…
Read MoreOn 12 November 2015, the Court of Justice in the Hewlett-Packard Belgium v. Reprobel case (C-572/13) eviscerated the system of fair compensation provi…
Read MoreIn the SBS Belgium NV (SBS) v. Belgische Vereniging van Auteurs, Componisten en Uitgevers (SABAM) case (C 325/14), the Court of Justice, following a r…
Read MoreVorige maand heeft het Hof van Justitie van de EU (HJEU) een interessante uitspraak gedaan over vormmerken, nadat de Engelse High Court of Justice pre…
Read MoreFollowing the landmark ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ECJ”) on 6 October 2015 in the Maximilian Schrems v Data Protection …
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Once again, Facebook is in the spotlight. On November 9, following the Recommendation 04/2015 of May 13, 2015, issued by the Belgian Data Protection A…
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Facebook uses “datr-cookies” to collect personal data of non-members. These datr-cookies are automatically installed on the browsers of non-members wh…
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After the October 6, 2015, decision of the CJEU, it is clear that transfers of personal data may no longer take place under the Safe Harbor. This was …
Read MoreThe Brussels Court of Appeal recently confirmed the landmark decision UsedSoft v. Oracle of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
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De voorbije jaren zijn er steeds meer voedingsmiddelen op de markt gekomen die gericht zijn op de gezondheidsbewuste consument. Smoothies op basis van…
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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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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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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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Vorige week toonden de online kranten in België zich bijzonder strijdlustig tegen de aan populariteit winnende adblocker software. Een juridisch prece…
Read MoreEarlier 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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Het Europees Hof van Justitie heeft in een recent arrest de principes van afdoende informatieverstrekking aan de betrokkene bij doorgifte van persoons…
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Many European companies transfer personal data to the United States (US). They can do so knowingly (e.g. when transferring data to group members) as w…
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