Bent u bestuurder of zaakvoerder van een onderneming die in zware economische moeilijkheden verkeert en tracht u kost wat kost deze onderneming te redden van haar ondergang?
The power to adopt rules governing residential leases was transferred to the regions further to the Sixth State Reform of 1 July 2014.
In the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region, the new rules are still being discussed and are not yet final:
On 14 July 2017, the Flemish government adopted a preliminary decree
Reform of the Belgian Privacy Commission
The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 creates a new privacy regime immediately applicable across the EU as from 25 May 2018. Under the GDPR, national supervisory authorities will have a strengthened role and increased enforcement powers.
The European Parliament and the European Council have reached a political agreement on the fifth anti-money laundering Directive. Several measures relate to the ultimate beneficial owner register (hereafter “UBO register”)
On 23 February 2017, the Flemish region and provinces started granting the so-called single permit (omgevingsvergunning) which replaces and consolidates the building permit (stedenbouwkundige vergunning), the environmental permit (milieuvergunning), and the permit to divide up land (verkavelingsvergunning) into one permit of unlimited duration.
Op 19 december 2017 zijn in het Europees Publicatieblad de verordeningen[1] verschenen waarbij met ingang van 1 januari 2018 de Europese drempelbedragen inzake de procedures voor het plaatsen van opdrachten en concessies worden aangepast. De nieuwe drempelbedragen gelden voor de periode 2018-2019.
Although Brexit has called into question the future of the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court, the Belgian legislature is nonetheless laying the necessary groundwork by ushering in various legislative changes.
On 13 November 2017, the European Commission launched a public consultation on sustainable finance to assess how asset managers and institutional investors could take into consideration environmental, social and governance factors when making their decisions.
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The Belgian Federal Government has recently approved a draft legislation which aims to modernize our business law. The idea raised by the Minister of Justice was to create a general concept of ‘undertaking’ in order to improve consistency and avoid legal uncertainty,
Op de benadeelde rust de plicht om de door hem opgelopen schade – in de mate van het mogelijke – te beperken. De schadebeperkingsplicht houdt in dat de benadeelde verplicht is alle maatregelen te nemen welke van een “redelijk en voorzichtig persoon” kunnen verwacht worden om de omvang van de schade in te dijken. De schadelijdende partij die tekortschiet in zijn schadebeperkingsplicht zal het gedeelte van de schade dat met naleving van deze plicht vermeden zou zijn, niet kunnen verhalen op degene die de schade heeft veroorzaakt.
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