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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On 22 March 2016, the new Belgian Leniency Guidelines (the "Guidelines") entered into force. They apply to all leniency applications su…
Read MoreMet een arrest nr. 233.609 van 26 januari 2016, heeft de Raad van State, in artikel 71, vierde lid, van haar eigen procedurereglement, de bepaling ver…
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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The transposition of the European Accountancy Directive into the Companies Code and its implementation decree by an Act of 18 December 2015 has severa…
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On 22 March 2016, the Belgian Competition Authority’s (“BCA”) new cartel leniency guidelines (the “Guidelines”) entered into force.[1] Below we brief…
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Om “estate planners” te voorzien van voldoende (boeiende) gespreksstof aan de feesttafel, publiceerde Minister Turtelboom op de laatste dag van 2…
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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…
Read MoreThe entry into force of the new public procurement law gets closer every day, as the new Public Procurement Directive 2014/24 must be implemented by 2…
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The procedure involving social elections to designate the members of the Works Council (“WC”) and/or Committee for the Prevention and Protection on th…
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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…
Read MoreAs from 1 April 2016, Belgium will be introducing a kilometre-based intelligent road charge for trucks exceeding 3.5 tonnes. The new toll will replace…
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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 …
Read MoreOn 15 February 2016, the European Commission activated the Online Dispute Resolution ("ODR") platform, enabling consumers and traders to use Alternati…
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Sinds enige tijd stelt de fiscale administratie dat bepaalde kapitaalverminderingen in toepassing van fiscaal misbruik aangemerkt moeten worden als di…
Read MorePursuant to Belgian law, Belgian consumer credit receivables may only be purchased by the following regulated entities: (1) registered consumer credit…
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The provisions on class actions in the Belgian Economic Code have been partially annulled by a judgment of the Belgian Constitutional Court of 17 Marc…
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De vraag of een deeltijdse werknemer van zijn werkgever voltijds loon kan vorderen als deze laatste niet de formaliteiten naleeft die zijn voorgeschre…
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Het vennootschapsrecht staat aan de vooravond van een revolutie. Minister van Justitie Koen Geens wil, gesteund door het Belgisch Centrum van het Venn…
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2016 is een jaar vol veranderingen voor het Europees en nationale merkenrecht. Op 23 maart 2016 is de nieuwe merkenverordening in werking getreden (Ve…
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