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Belgium Employment Law – Another set of upcoming reforms relating to working time and work regu…

The Belgian federal government continues its reform of the Belgian labour market. On 3 February 2026, a new draft act was published. It still needs to go through the full legislati…

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Belgium tightens rules on subcontracting chains in the construction sector

Belgium and the Flanders region have recently introduced a set of new rules that significantly impact the use of subcontracting chains in the construction sector (and in other sect…

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Legal interest rate for 2026 fixed at 4.50%

The legal interest rate for 2026 remains 4.50%.

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The European Pay Transparency Directive will have a major im…

On 10 May 2023, the European Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970 was adopte…

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09/02/26
When a non-compete clause loses its bite

Distribution agreements often include a non-compete clause. Such a clause i…

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Plaatst Grondwettelijk Hof (mega)projecten op de helling?

Het Grondwettelijk Hof heeft in een heel recent arrest een artikel vernietigd over het zogenaamde integratiespoor, waarmee de Vlaamse Regering in 2008…

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The bill transposing the Directive on “falsified medicines” was broughtbefore the House of Representatives

Comme nous vous l’annoncions dans notre newsletter de février 2012, la Directive 2011/62/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 8 juin 2011 modifia…

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Landmark rulings on the time-limits for commencing proceedings against ECHA decisions

The Court of Justice ('CJ') has issued two landmark rulings in Cases C-625/11 P and C-626/11 P PPG and SNF v ECHA. The CJ set aside the judgments of t…

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Defence rights during dawn raids: the General Court attempts to put principles into practice

Competition authorities have broad powers of investigation during unannounced inspections of companies’ premises ("dawn raids"). In its judgment in De…

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Rejection of the suspension of the permit of the commercial center - Rives de Verviers

Dans un arrêt du 11 janvier 2012, n°217.157 le Conseil d’État avait suspendu le premier permis accordé à la société «Les Rives de Verviers» pour impla…

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The Belgian Fairness Tax Regime

The Act of 30 July 2013 has introduced a new, separate corporate income tax, called “fairness tax”. Fairness tax constitutes a separate, non-deductibl…

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What foreigners better know under the new PRC Exit and Entry rules

We would like to raise your special attention to the new PRC Exit and Entry Law of July 1, 2013 (hereinafter, the "New Law") as well as to the Regulat…

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Hoedanigheid van het College van Burgemeester en Schepenen bij de RvvB: Raad van State komt tussen.

Reeds in een eerdere nieuwsbrief hebben wij gewezen op het overdreven formalisme bij de Raad voor Vergunningsbetwistingen omtrent de hoedanigheid van …

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Brussels-Capital Region

Ministerial Decree of 23 April 2013 adapting the multiplier of the number of green certificates granted for photovoltaic installations.

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Brussels ordinance on information on underground cables, pipes and conduits

Some time ago, we saw the creation of the “KLIM” ("Kabels en Leidingen Informatie Meldpunt" or Cable and Pipe Information Notification Office) at fede…

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Plan for certainty of electricity supply approved

The plan contains various measures to cater for the loss in capacity due to the run-down of nuclear energy and to increase import capacity by extendin…

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The decision of CREG on the tariff proposal corrected by Elia for the period 2012-2015

La Cour d'appel de Bruxelles a annulé, dans son arrêt du 6 février 2013, la décision tarifaire de la CREG du 22 décembre 2011. Avec cette nouvelle déc…

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Implementation of the Third European Package of energy regulations (BE)

Belgium’s federal energy regulator, CREG, filed a petition before the Constitutional Court seeking partial setting-aside of the Act of 8 January 2012 …

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Walloon Green Certificates (PV): updated executive summary

Fin mars 2013, le Gouvernement wallon a annoncé une refonte du système des certificats verts (CV) pour les installations photovoltaïques < 10 kWc. …

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Brussels Court of Appeal Rules on Misleading Comparative Advertising

On 27 and 28 June 2013, the Brussels Court of Appeal (the “Court of Appeal”) delivered two judgments in relation to misleading comparative advertising…

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Flemish system of green certificates in danger

Advocate-General Yves Bot finds, in the framework of a preliminary ruling procedure before the Court of Justice that the Flemish system is contrary to…

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De Advocatenakte

Op 13 juni 2013 is de Wet van 29 april 2013 betreffende de door de advocaten van de partijen medeondertekende onderhandse akte in werking getreden. De…

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The mechanism regarding the withholding obligation and the guarantee in respect of social security and the tax…

The social security and tax authorities recourse regarding the withholding obligation and guarantee during a judicial reorganization has been confirme…

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The Belgian Prospectus Act has been amended

Key provisions of the Amending Directive transposed into Belgian Law by the Amending Act When transposing the Amending Directive and thus modifying th…

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Agreement regarding Harmonisation of Blue Collar and White Collar Employee Regimes

Already in a 1993 judgment, the Constitutional Court (Grondwettelijk Hof / Cour Constitutionnelle) had considered the specific differences between whi…

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