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Ronde van de Rechtsstaat - Opendeur van de vier hoge rechtscolleges Brussel - 25 oktober 2025

In het kader van de Europese dag voor Justitie zetten de vier hoge rechtscolleges hun deuren open: Grondwettelijk Hof, Hof van Cassatie, Raad van State en het Rekenhof. VRG-Alumni…

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De vernieuwde stageovereenkomst

Op 10 oktober 2025 trad het gewijzigde artikel 31 bis van de Codex Deontologie voor Advocaten in werking. Dat betekent dat alle stageovereenkomsten – zowel nieuwe als lopende – uit…

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Legal Geek Europe 2026

Legal Geek Europe returns on 14 April 2026 at De Hallen Studio’s, Amsterdam.

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EU Cybersecurity Month: Protecting your business from invest…

EU Cybersecurity Month is an annual awareness campaign held every October t…

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CTRL + SHIFT + INVOICE­: The 2026 E-volution

Imagine... You run a small but thriving Belgian design agency. Your days ar…

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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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CJEU upholds national support schemes for renewable energy

On 1 July 2014, the day that the Belgian regional regulators (VREG, BRUGEL and CWaPE) gained competence over distribution grid tariffs, the Court of J…

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New threshold amounts for non-recurrent performance-related bonuses (Collective Bargaining Agreement n° 90)

A Belgian employer may grant a benefit to his employees in the form of a non-recurrent performance-related bonus. Up to a certain amount, such bonuses…

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WK-Tip nr 6

Nu de Rode Duivels in de kwartfinale spelen tegen Argentinië, geef ik aan al mijn personeelsleden een rode sjaal met hun logo op. Die kost me 40 euro …

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New Act on Regulated Real Estate Companies published in Belgian Official Journal

The REITs Act follows the recent publication of the Belgian Act of 19 April 2014 on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (the “AIFM Act”) ”) 1. The RE…

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Recent Developments in Data Protection

On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") handed down a judgment on two references for a preliminary ruling from the High Co…

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Watch out for “volunteers”!

A recent decision by the Court of Cassation may end the practice of relying on “volunteers” which was, to date, widespread e.g. during music festivals…

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WK-Tip nr 5

Uw werknemer Johan, voetbalgek en bewonderaar van Braziliaanse vrouwen, reist morgen af naar Brazilië. Om de koffers tijdig klaar te krijgen, had hij …

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Can an incorporated association be assimilated to a “relative” in the case of termination of a retail lease by…

The Constitutional Court ruled that the family ties which allow the buyer of a property to terminate a retail lease for personal use cannot be assimil…

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Comment obtenir la désindexation de contenus vous concernant sur Google ?

Qui effectue une recherche sur une personne dans un moteur de recherche ne peut être que continuellement étonné par l'incroyable quantité d'informatio…

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Working time: “on-call” versus “stand-by”

In an exceptional short ruling, the Belgian Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) seems to have reversed its own judgment of 30 January 1984 and appears,…

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L’intérêt du divorce par consentement mutuel : consultez un avocat

Il semblerait que le nombre de divorces par consentement mutuel reste stable, depuis la réforme du divorce de 2007, bien que le nombre d’introductions…

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The right to withdraw from the new regulated real estate companies

Shareholders in Belgian REITs will be allowed to withdraw on specific conditions if they do not accept the new regulatory framework applicable to B-RE…

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WK-Tip nr 4

Tijdens de match België-Rusland werd Romelu Lukaku van het veld gehaald. Uw werknemers van de late shift hebben zondag na het werk naar de match gekek…

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Scope of the Insolvency Regulation: What happens in the case of a recall action against a defendant residing i…

The Court of Justice recently decided that the scope of the Insolvency Regulation is not only limited to situations involving two or more Member State…

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Coupe du Monde de football au travail : droits et obligations de l'employeur

A la veille du début de la Coupe du Monde de football au Brésil, faisons un bref état des lieux des droits et obligations de l'employeur et de son per…

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New legislation related to “Intellectual Property” published in the Belgian State Gazette

The objective of these two acts is to codify the existing legislation in relation to intellectual property (patents for inventions, supplementary prot…

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The uniqueness of the Belgian State in the judicial reorganization proceedings

The State is one and is indivisible, and its various departments do not have their own legal personality separate from the State. Managerial autonomy …

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ECJ Reconfirms Compatibility of Belgian Opening Hours Legislation With EU Law

In a judgment of 8 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) held that it has no jurisdiction to examine the compatibility of the B…

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Bankruptcy of the debtor: not all is necessarily lost

The unpaid creditors of a company which has been declared bankrupt after running through a procedure of judicial reorganization can claim a privilege …

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« Le statut unique entre ouvrier et employé » - Troisième partie – La motivation du licenciement

Le Conseil National du Travail a adopté le 12.02.2014 la CCT n° 109 concernant la motivation du licenciement. Elle entrera en vigueur le 01.04.2014.

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