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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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Iran back in business?

Iran counts almost 78 million inhabitants and showed an economic growth of 6 to 8% on average between 2006 and 2008. Economic growth has dropped in th…

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Living in your own region” and “social obligations” measures annulled: what’s next?

In two judgments issued on 7 November 2013, the Belgian Constitutional Court annulled the so-called “living in your own region” and “social obligation…

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Dutch Supreme Court ruled against statutory conversion of anticompetitive effect clauses

On 20 December 2013, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the "statutory conversion" provision in the Dutch Civil Code does not apply to clauses that ha…

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THE “RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN” AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INTERNET INTERMEDIARIES

On November 6, a Paris Court ordered Google to filter out hyperlinks to images of former F1 boss Max Mosley in an allegedly Nazi-themed sadomasochisti…

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First draft decision of the Prosecution body of the Belgian Competition Authority regarding Electrabel

The Prosecution body filed on 29 November 2013 a draft decision to the President of the Belgian Competition Authority concerning the practices of Elec…

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General Court confirmed that high market shares (80-90%) do not necessarily equal market power in innovative m…

On 11 December 2013, the Commission's approval of Microsoft's acquisition of Skype survived a challenge brought by two competing producers of internet…

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The sixth reform of the Belgian state : what will change for the energy sector ?

The sixth reform of the Belgian State has been recently voted in the federal parliament. This reform includes the modification of the Special Act and,…

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Wat brengt de fiscus in 2014?

Het Marlex-team wenst iedereen een gezond en voorspoedig 2014.

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Reporting obligation and tax transparency of foreign legal structures – Report on the current situation at mi…

As announced in our newsletter of 25 November 2013, the Belgian government was planning to introduce, as from 1 January 2014, a tax transparency …

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THE UNIFIED STATUS

For all employees whose employment contracts are terminated from 1 January 2014, a new redundancy scheme with uniform notice periods shall apply. This…

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No compulsory partition in case of voluntary co-ownership: Matter closes

By a judgment dated 20 September 2013, the Belgian Supreme Court has decided that article 815 of the Civil Code, by which a co-owner can force the par…

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Use of “Claeys” Formula For Dismissals Abolished on 1 January 2014

The social stakeholders reached an agreement to harmonise the white collar and blue collar employee regimes (See, VBB on Belgian Business Law, Volume …

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The Council of State annuls the obligation of solidarity between an architect and a builder (art. 51, §2, of t…

Consortium without legal personality – Solidarity – Architect – Builder – Independence – Nullity

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UPC Agreement (European Patent) : soon time for legislators and undertakings to take decisions

The UPC Agreement is a convention concluded between 25 Member States and which installs a unified patent court. With two regulations adopted by the Eu…

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IN PIRATE BAY CASE, BELGIAN SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS LAWFULNESS OF GENERIC IP BLOCKING INJUNCTIONS

By the judgment rendered on 22 October 2013 in the Belgian version of the long-lasting The Pirate Bay saga, the Belgian Court of Cassation (Belgium’s …

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Court of Justice held that national legislation imposing an obligation to participate in a scheme of compulsor…

On 12 December 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in Ministero dello Sviluppo economico v. SOA Nazionale Costrutt…

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Belgian Competition Authority Adopts Guidelines on Conduct of Inspections

On 24 December 2013, the Board of Directors of the Belgian Competition Authority (“BCA”) published in the Belgian Official Journal (Belgisch Staatsbla…

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Case law on the taxation in Belgium of income distributed by the French SCI once again rejects the administrat…

Some jurisdictions had supported the view of the tax authorities that such income can be taxed in Belgium as dividends. The Court of First Instance of…

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Belgian Competition Authority Issues Guidelines for Dawn Raids

When investigating violations of competition law, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") can carry out unannounced on-site inspections at the premi…

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Court of Justice dismisses Gas Insulated Switchgear appeals

On 19 December 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down the judgment in joined cases C-239/11 P, C-489/11 P, C-498/11 P (Siemens v…

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