En 2019, et ce pour la première fois en Europe, la publicité traditionnelle a été détrônée par la publicité en ligne en matière d’investissement.
Dawn raids are unannounced searches via which a competition authority verifies whether its suspicions that competition law has been violated are indeed justified. The searches are traditionally done in the offices of the company or professional association under investigation. Not only business premises but also company cars can be searched. However, a competition authority also has the power to conduct searches in private homes (and private cars) of e.g. the managers, directors or other personnel members of the company or association. For this they must have a reasonable suspicion that documents which are relevant for the investigation are located in those places. Moreover, they require a prior court authorisation for doing such searches.
Un récent arrêt de la Cour d’appel de Paris déclenche des commentaires passionnés et parfois belliqueux. Les pharmaciens français sont-ils vraiment sur le point de se faire manger par une concurrence qualifiée de « déloyale » de la part de sites établis dans d’autres Etats membres ? Décryptage d’un arrêt complexe et d’une question qui l’est tout autant.
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A zero tariff option is a commercial practice whereby an internet access provider applies a ‘zero tariff’ (or a tariff that is more advantageous) to all or part of the data traffic associated
The law of 2 August 2002 (FR/NL) on combating late payment between companies will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary. Surprisingly, despite its age, the legislator still makes regular adjustments to it.
On 10 September 2021, the EU watchdog for competition, the Directorate-General Competition (“DG COMP”) of the European Commission, published the main results of the public consultation launched in 2020
The law proposal, tabled on 23 February 2021 by the Federal Government, aims at including in the Belgian Code of Economic Law a mechanism for screening foreign direct investments in a Belgian company active in a strategic sector
In the future, the European Commission apparently would like to subject dual distribution to additional conditions for being able to benefit from the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (‘VBER’).
De Belgische wetgever heeft op 15 juli 2021 een nieuwe wet gestemd tot wijziging van de wet betalingsachterstand van 2 augustus 2002. Na de eerdere wetswijziging in 2020 achtte de wetgever een verdere aanscherping van de regels gewenst.
Voor de Voorzitter van de Nederlandstalige Ondernemingsrechtbank te Brussel, zetelend zoals in kort geding[1], bracht het 13-jarige stilzitten van eiser ivm een beweerde verwarringstichtende handelsnaam door een derde,
