In a decision of 7 October 2025, the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data…
Recent French judgments from the Nantes Judicial Court have drawn a clear l…
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In February 2012, the European Commission (the “Commission”) issued guidelines concerning the enforcement by EU customs authorities of intellectual pr…
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On 3 April 2012, the President of the Commercial Court of Antwerp found that a patent holder had abused its patent right by serving notice on an alleg…
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In a previous Headlines we have already set out the measures in the fight against the non-observance of the obligations with regard to part-time work,…
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Le nombre de faillites n'a jamais été aussi élevé en Belgique. En 2011, on compte pas moins de 15.528 faillites1 . Pour le premier trimest…
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On 30 March 2012, the European Commission published its Antitrust Manual of Procedures (the so-called “ManProc”), which comprises internal working doc…
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On 19 April 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) held that EU data protection rules do not preclude national legislation from prov…
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Votre entreprise connaît des arriérés O.N.S.S. et T.V.A. inquiétants ? Les banques menacent de dénoncer les crédits ? La trésorerie de votre entrepris…
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Two recent acts have streamlined the liquidation procedure by, amongst others, explicitly providing the possibility to wind-up and liquidate a company…
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On 5 April 2012, the Belgian Competition Council imposed a fine of € 75,000 on Belgian telecoms company Belgacom for providing an incomplete response …
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Il s'agit d'une déduction élémentaire, mon cher Watson : si un débiteur se trouve dans l'obligation de solliciter l'ouverture d'une procédure en réorg…
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Dans un lourd contexte de crise et de réformes des procédures collectives au niveau international, notre législateur adoptait il y a trois ans déjà la…
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The benefits of introducing a non-recurring result-tied bonus (NRRB) plan within a company are not to be overlooked. Any employer wishing to award an …
Read MoreA think tank “Transport 2012” was dedicated to the specifics of the ports and has brought together Philippe Matthis (Managing Assistant Director), Emi…
Read MoreIn the near future the demographic growth in Brussels will be considerable: by 2020, there will be between 140,000 and 240,000 additional people. This…
Read MoreThe first think tank of the project “Transport 2012” led by CMS DeBacker focused on the issue of important transport facilities and their evolution as…
Read MoreSince January 1st 2012, the calculation of the amount of the advantage in kind of a car company has been changed for the employee who has a company ca…
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Fiscal residency Recent jurisprudence reconfirms the importance of the correct interpretation and of the substance requirements for the "permanent hom…
Read MoreThe name of the early retirement has been modified – one speaks henceforth about “unemployment with employers’ intervention” (abbr. “UEI”) –, it is no…
Read MoreThe Law of December 28, 2011 and the Royal Decree of December 28, 2011 modifying the Royal Decree of May 3, 2007 on the system of early retirement in …
Read MoreIn order to face up the ageing of the Belgian population, the government has inserted in the project of general politic applicable for 2011 measures r…
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