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Jones Day’s Brussels Office strengthens its Labor & Employment Practice

The global law firm Jones Day announced that Sara Vanderstraeten has joined the Firm as of counsel in its Labor & Employment Practice. Ms. Vanderstraeten is based in Jones Day…

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Amicus curiae contest

The CCBE Amicus Curiae contest is a competition which is organised every year and which is addressed to law students (undergraduate, post graduate, master) whose degree is a prereq…

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Stibbe Brussels reinforces Real Estate and Energy practices with two new partners

Stibbe is pleased to announce the appointments of Anneleen Quirynen (Real Estate, Construction & Projects) and Lothar Van Driessche (Energy, Industry & Utilities) as partne…

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First application of Towercast in Belgium and merger filing …

The Belgian Competition Authority has applied the Towercast case law in a f…

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Preparing for the U.S. BIOSECURE Act

Momentum is building for the US BIOSECURE Act, and it is becoming more and …

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Distribution of certain derivative financial instruments to retail clients: a prospective ban?

On 8 January 2016, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (“FSMA”) initiated a consultation on a draft regulation governing the distribution of …

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Data Protection Alert : Political agreement on new EU-US “Privacy Shield” to replace Safe Harbour

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

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Court of Justice confirmed independence of EU and national leniency programmes

On 20 January 2016, the Court of Justice ruled on the relationship between leniency applications submitted to the Commission and to national comp…

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DECAVA-bijdragen: verhoging vanaf 2016 !

De DECAVA-werkgeversbijdragen (op de bedrijfstoeslag SWT en bij Canada dry en tijdskrediet) zijn verhoogd vanaf 1 januari 2016.

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The notional interest deduction is alive and kicking! The Fortum case

The Belgian tax authorities do not hesitate to deny, in certain situations, the notional interest deduction to Belgian companies belonging to multinat…

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Het Grondwettelijk Hof schept duidelijkheid over mogelijke discriminatie inzake opzeggingstermijnen tussen arb…

In zijn arrest van 21 januari 2016 heeft het Grondwettelijk Hof zich uitgesproken over het mogelijk discriminatoir karakter van ontslagen die plaatsvo…

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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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