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The perfect place for any legal or tax professional to keep abreast of everything that’s happening on the Belgian legal scene

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17/07/26
17/07/26
New European rules on consumer credit transposed into Belgian law

On 9 July 2026, the Belgian Parliament adopted the act transposing the European Consumer Credit Directive (CCD II), extending Belgian consumer credit rules to certain deferred-paym…

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16/07/26
16/07/26
White collar and investigations partner Isabelle De Smedt joins Dentons’ Litigation practice in…

Global law firm Dentons has strengthened its Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Compliance and Investigations practices in Belgium with the recruitment of partner Isabelle De Sm…

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15/07/26
15/07/26
European Union: New UBO Rules Come into Force

The EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 ("AMLR") establishes a fully harmonized framework for the identification and disclosure of ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) …

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17/07/26
The three-times-rent rule holds: Council of State clarifies …

Can a landlord refuse a prospective tenant because their income is less tha…

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16/07/26
New notification obligation for automatic renewals also affe…

A new bill introduces an active notification obligation in Article VI.91 of…

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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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24/01/14
The Company Manager and Affiliation to a Social Insurance Fund for Self-Employed Persons

Belgian employment law has no specific rules applicable to company managers. As the Brussels Labour Court stated in a judgment issued on 19 April 200…

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24/01/14
Price fixing cartel in the North Sea

Four North Sea shrimps traders fined € 28 million for price fixing cartel.

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23/01/14
New Act on SME financing

On 31 December 2013, the act relating to the financing of small and medium-sized undertakings (the Act) was published in the Belgian State Gazette. Th…

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23/01/14
General terms and conditions: certain focus points

Every company works with its own terms and conditions of sale. However, discussions often arise whether these terms and conditions are opposable or no…

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22/01/14
PPP PROJECTS MUST OBSERVE INDEPENDENCE OF ARCHITECT

On October 22, 2013 the Council of State has rendered two judgments that are highly relevant for local PPP projects (nr. 225.191 and 225.192).

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22/01/14
New Act on Trust Accounts Held by Lawyers, Notaries and Bailiffs

On 10 December 2013, a new act was published in the Belgian State Gazette concerning the trust accounts (kwaliteitsrekeningen/comptes de qualité) held…

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21/01/14
Social security contributions charged on some compensation for special protected employees: the government too…

Since 1 October 2013 social security contributions must be paid on almost all (severance) payments that are due by the employer based on the terminati…

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21/01/14
Europe has fined a group of banks a total amount of €1.7 billion for manipulation of interest rates

The European Commission has imposed a record fine of €1.71 billion on eight financial institutions for participating in cartels in order to manipulate…

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20/01/14
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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20/01/14
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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20/01/14
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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17/01/14
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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17/01/14
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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17/01/14
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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16/01/14
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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16/01/14
Wat brengt de fiscus in 2014?

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

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15/01/14
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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15/01/14
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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15/01/14
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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14/01/14
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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