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Manifestation nationale du monde judiciaire

Le 20 mars 2025, au 10ème anniversaire de la 'Journée de l’état de droit', magistrats et avocats avaient remis ensemble à Madame la ministre de la justice Verlinden la lettre de re…

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Lawyer Leader Manager - Programme de formation en gestion et leadership

Les avocats sont déjà experts en droit et en procédure, mais la gestion d'un cabinet nécessite des compétences spécifiques auxquelles ils doivent également se former. Conscient d…

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Baker McKenzie Welcomes New Energy & Infrastructure Team to Brussels Office

Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie is pleased to announce the arrival of a new Energy & Infrastructure team in Brussels, effective 1 November. The team includes David Haver…

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Deactivation of mailbox and phone number after termination o…

In a decision of 7 October 2025, the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data…

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Cyber-fraud and banking vigilance: French case law and lesso…

Recent French judgments from the Nantes Judicial Court have drawn a clear l…

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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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Is the clause (in a wedding contract) which provides that the assets of the community of proprety be allocated…

When spouses agree that a part exceeding half of the community of proprety would be attributed to one of the spouses in case the community is dissolve…

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Law on the continuity of companies: judgment of the Court of Cassation of 30 June 2011

As with common debt claims in adjournment, fiscal debt claims can be taxed with decreases in capital of the juridical reorganization plan.

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Guidelines regarding the lifting of bank secrecy in Belgium

The tax authorities have recently published two circulars about the bill of 14 April 2011 allowing the lifting of bank secrecy in Belgium.

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New possibility of negotiated procedure with announcement

The latest legislation regarding public procurements creates a new possibility of negotiated procedure with announcement for the public procurements t…

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Variants, options and lots

The new Royal Decree dedicates an entire section to variants, options and lots.

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Regularity of the offers – new concepts

Formal and substantive regularity, substantial and relative regularity

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Competitive dialogue rules!

Royal Decree of 15 July 2011 authorizes the use of this exceptional procedure.

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Market research: what can a contracting authority do?

Public procurements – new article – authorized market research – conditions

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Increase in the number of students for the complementary masters in general dentistry, orthodontics and period…

Adopted on 19 August 2011, the royal decree relating to the planning of dental provision sets the number of candidates that will have access to specia…

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No supplementary protection certificate (SPC) for a medicinal product without prior evaluation of its safety a…

In order to support innovative pharmaceutical researches, European law foresees the possibility for pharmaceutical companies to file a request for the…

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Distinction between advertising and information relating to medicines

By two decisions of 5 May 2011, the Court of Justice gave more certainty 'as to what constitutes information rather than prohibited advertising for me…

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Prohibition on advertising of aesthetic acts

Le 5 août dernier paraissait au Moniteur belge la loi, annoncée de longue date, interdisant la publicité et réglementant l'information relatives aux a…

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Commission clears the acquisition of French chemicals company Rhodia by Solvay

On 5 August 2011, the European Commission approved a merger between the French company Rhodia and the Belgium-based group Solvay, on the grounds that …

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BIPT imposes a EUR 2.3 million fine on bpost

In 2010, bpost discriminated between business customers and mail handlers by way of the so-called ‘per sender’ tariff model. BIPT also finds the tarif…

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The Commission opens an investigation into state aid to Royal Mail

The European Commission announced on 29 July this year that it has opened an in-depth investigation to determine whether the United Kingdom's plans to…

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Airports and airlines in the European spotlight

In July 2011, the Commission launched three in-depth investigations about state aid in France, Germany and Ireland in the air transport sector. On the…

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Judicial reorganization: Olivier Strelli plays poker and wins!

A new decision confirms that the differential treatment of creditors in a reorganization plan does not necessarily infringe the constitutional princip…

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European green light for BNP Paribas restructuring

On 6 September 2011, the European Commission approved the acquisition of Fortis Commercial Finance Holding by BNP Paribas under its merger regulation.…

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Do not forget to file your annual accounts with the Belgian National Bank!

In 2010, 47,830 companies did not file their annual accounts with the BNB. Penalties for such an versight may be quite serious.

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Can the pledgor be allowed to dispose of pledged financial securities?

Subject to compliance with certain conditions, the fact that a pledgor is contractually allowed to dispose of pledged financial securities can affect …

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