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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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Provision of services: operative event and chargeability of VAT

Since 1 January 2013, the mere issue of an invoice no longer makes the tax due. The new regulations significantly modify the financing of VAT collecte…

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Legislation of the Flemish community with regard to use of language: illegal or only in certain situations?

In its decision of 16 April 2013, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Decree of the Flemish Community infringes the principle of free movemen…

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Termination indemnities no longer exempt from social security contributions

Within the framework of the combat against social fraud, the council of ministers recently approved a royal decree subjecting indemnities paid at empl…

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Meeting the requirements for claiming unemployment benefits with employer’s contribution (previously “early re…

The gradual tightening of the conditions for claiming unemployment benefits with employer’s contribution implies that some employees will fulfil these…

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New step in pension reform: harmonisation of pension bonus

Given the ageing population, the government has undertaken to reform the pension system. On 1 March, it was decided to harmonise the pension bonus sys…

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Obligation to hire interns for employers in the private sector

As of 1 January 2013, all private sector employers, regardless of the number of workers they employ, have to hire a minimum number of interns on a yea…

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Obligation to hire interns for employers in the private sector

As of 1 January 2013, all private sector employers, regardless of the number of workers they employ, have to hire a minimum number of interns on a yea…

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Unilateral modification of function and implicit breach of contract: a risk for both parties

An employer who unilaterally changes the function of an employee risks being ordered to pay an indemnity in lieu of notice. Nevertheless, the employee…

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Intellectual rights according to the new legal provisions about public procurements

Intellectual rights in public procurements – ownership – enforceability – funding

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Upcoming reform of the Belgian Overseas Social Security regime

You may have heard that the Belgian Overseas Social Security Office’s regime (“OSSO”) is up for some changes. After earlier study, the Belgian Governm…

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The advances

Public procurement – General terms of payment – Before executed and accepted service – Advances

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New regulation concerning caution

Public procurement – Execution – Caution

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General implementation rules for public procurements – payment terms – interest related to delays

Examination of the new articles regarding payment terms and interest related to delays: new term of 60 days applicable in principle for all public pro…

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Schijnzelfstandigheid in de bouwsector

Schijnzelfstandigen verrichten prestaties onder het statuut van zelfstandige, maar werken feitelijk in ondergeschikt verband voor een werkgever. De ge…

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First draft of the new de minimis regulation

 Although the Commission announced that the de minimis threshold would be raised to 500.000 EUR per undertaking over a period of 3 years, the 200…

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Opinion of EU Advocate General on Right to Be Forgotten and (Territorial) Application of Data Protection Rules…

On 25 June 2013, Advocate General Jääskinen (the “AG”) delivered his opinion in case C-131/12 Google Spain and Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Prote…

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Flour cartel fined in Belgium

On 28 February 2013, the Belgian Competition Council fined five enterprises because of anticompetitive agreements in the market for the sale and suppl…

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Amended Prospectus Act

On 6 August 2013, the Act of 17 July 2013 (1) (the Amending Act) was published in the Belgian Official Journal. The Amending Act transposes Directive …

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Belgian authority loses in-house privilege battle

On 5 March 2013, the Court of Appeal of Brussels ruled that in-house lawyers have the right to legal privilege vis-à-vis the competition authorities.

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The Commission fines Microsoft 561 million for breaching commitments

On 6 March 2013, the European Commission imposed a €561 million fine on Microsoft for not complying with its commitments to offer users a browser choi…

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