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21/06/24
21/06/24
Crowell & Moring launches its Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group in Brussels

Marcus Navin-Jones has joined Crowell & Moring’s Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group as a senior counsel in the Brussels office, bringing in-depth experience advis…

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19/06/24
19/06/24
Ne manquez pas les Universités d'été d'AVOCATS.BE – Inscrivez-vous aujourd'hui

Nous sommes ravis de constater votre enthousiasme pour la 8ème édition des Universités d’été qui aura lieu les 20 et 21 août 2024 au magnifique Château-ferme de Courrière. Avec déj…

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10/01/24
10/01/24
New LLM opportunity in Belgium: VUB-BSoG transforms its LLM to evening classes and announces ne…

The Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has announced a significant overhaul of its English-taught LLM in International and European Law pr…

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01/07/24
Brussels Court of Appeal Prohibits the Rebranding of a Gener…

The Judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeal is the latest development in t…

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28/06/24
Belgium gears up to enforce the EU Deforestation Regulation

The EU Deforestation Regulation (‘EUDR’) was published in the Official Jour…

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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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08/02/18
The European Commission undertakes the review of SMEs’ definition

The European Commission is reviewing the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) established by Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6…

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06/02/18
EU Commission warns stakeholders of customs and indirect tax impact of Brexit

On 30 January 2018, the EU Commission issued a notice regarding the impact of Brexit in the field of customs and indirect taxation. In its …

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05/02/18
The Belgian corporate income tax reform

As announced since several months, the new Belgian corporate income tax reform was recently enacted by the law of 25 December 2017 (hereafter: “Law”),…

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02/02/18
Brexit Business Brief newsletter | The transition period

After the EU27 and the UK reached outline agreement on the terms of the UK’s withdrawal just before Christmas, we now await negotiations on the terms …

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02/02/18
Qualcomm fined for abusing exclusivity rebates

Qualcomm has been fined nearly EUR 1 billion over an exclusivity agreement with Apple. Under a 2011 agreement, Apple committed to exclusively sourcin…

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01/02/18
The European Commission fines Qualcomm EUR 997 million for abuse of dominance .

The Commission investigation has shown that Qualcomm held a dominant position in the worldwide market for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) baseband chipsets …

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30/01/18
European Commission assesses adequacy of General Food Law in food and feed industry

In an evaluation of the EU legislative framework for the 2002 General Food Law Regulation (GFLR), the European Commission has found that this framewor…

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26/01/18
Plus-values internes : premières décisions positives du SDA en cas de « vente » d’actions à une holding (parti…

Depuis la refonte du régime des plus-values internes par la Loi-programme du 25 décembre 2016, l’ « apport » d’actions par une personne phys…

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16/01/18
Les réductions de capital effectuées fin 2017 sont-elles vraiment à l'abri ?

Quelque 5.000 sociétés belges ont procédé à des réductions de capital avant la fin de l'année 2017. Ces opérations échappent à la nouvelle taxe frappa…

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15/01/18
Netherlands to become a new hub for international commercial dispute resolution

Recent years has seen a downward trend in international trade and commercial cases brought before Dutch courts. But with the Dutch parliament schedule…

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15/01/18
Clauses abusives et risques relatifs au taux de change dans le cadre de contrats de crédit à la consommation

Une banque roumaine a conclu un contrat de crédit avec un consommateur en franc suisse. En vertu d’une clause du contrat, les consommateurs se voyaien…

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11/01/18
EU issues draft guidance on data breach handling

There has been a lot to do about the changes that are to be implemented by companies processing personal data due to the GDPR. One of those changes is…

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10/01/18
La directive relative aux pratiques commerciales déloyales s’étend aux activités de recouvrement de créances

Gelvora UAB est une société de recouvrement de créances qui, en vertu d’un contrat de cession, avait acquis des créances.

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08/01/18
The Court of Justice of the EU nds that luxury goods’ suppliers can prevent authorized distributors from sell…

Coty Germany (“Coty”) is a luxury cosmetic goods’ supplier in Germany Coty preserves the luxury image of its products by marketing certain brands thro…

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05/01/18
Fiscus bevestigt FAQ’s btw-plicht lokalen besturen in circulaire

Op 22 december 2017 heeft de fiscus de “Frequently Asked Questions” omtrent de btw-plicht van publieke rechtspersonen bevestigd in een circulaire (Cir…

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02/01/18
Les contrats d’assurance dans le viseur de la taxe Caïman : uniquement en cas d’abus ?

Le 4 octobre dernier, le ministre des finances avait fait savoir, par un communiqué de presse, qu’il souhaitait faire entrer dans le champ d’applicati…

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02/01/18
The European Commission finds the International Skating Union’s (“ISU”) rules, which foresee significant penal…

The ISU is the only body recognised by the International Olympic Commi ee (“IOC”) in charge of managing gure skating and speed skating on ice. The ISU…

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26/12/17
European Commission consults on sustainable finance

On 13 November 2017, the European Commission launched a public consultation on sustainable finance to assess how asset managers and institutional inve…

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22/12/17
The Court of Justice dismisses the appeal brought by the Commission and confirms the unlawful classification o…

On 22 November 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") delivered its judgment in Case C-691/15 P European Commission v Bilbaína…

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22/12/17
Belgian corporate tax reform enacted by Parliament

On 22 December 2017, the Belgian Parliament approved the major corporate tax reform announced in July. The final Act is expected to be publi…

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