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14/08/25
14/08/25
Legal tech company Afriwise acquires LawExplorer and boosts regulatory intelligence in Africa

Afriwise, Africa’s fastest-growing legal-intelligence platform founded by Belgian lawyer Steven De Backer, has acquired LawExplorer, South Africa’s most established provider of reg…

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05/05/25
05/05/25
Promotions at Clifford Chance Brussels

Clifford Chance announces the promotion of 31 partners to the global partnership, and four new Senior Counsel and forty new Counsel appointments across our European offices, 8 of w…

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19/11/24
19/11/24
Liberius welcomes new EU Competition and Trade Law Partner in Brussels

Liberius is thrilled to announce the arrival of David Henry as a Partner in its Brussels-based EU, Competition & Trade Practice. David, a member of the Brussels Bar and a quali…

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06/10/25
EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) proposed delay: What busi…

On 23 September 2025, the European Commission announced its plan to postpon…

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01/10/25
Shrinkflation – are brands and supermarkets required to info…

As inflation continues to exert pressure on retail prices, brands and super…

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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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30/04/14
Credit card companies under scrutiny from competition authorities

On 26 February 2014, the European Commission rendered the commitments offered by Visa Europe legally binding. These commitments involve significantly …

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28/04/14
Book III of the Belgian Code of Economic Law imposes significant transparancy and information obligations upon…

By Act of parliament (17July 2013), published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 14 August 2013, the new Belgian Code of Economic Law was supplemented…

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17/04/14
La lutte contre le retard de paiement dans les transactions commerciales

Le 10 décembre 2013, la loi modifiant la loi du 2 août 2002 concernant la lutte contre le retard de paiement dans les transactions commerciales a été …

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20/03/14
For the first time, the Belgian Competition Authority publishes new guidelines for dawn raids

Since 2011, the Competition Prosecutors have communicated guidelines regarding the dawn raid process to undertakings that were dawn raided. Since the …

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19/03/14
Een hervorming van het mededingingsrecht, een verhoging van de aansprakelijkheid. Een verwittigd bestuurder is…

Voor de meeste bedrijven lijkt het mededingingsrecht een ver-van-mijn-bed-show. Dit is echter onterecht zoals blijkt uit volgende voorbeelden: werd u …

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13/03/14
Belgium criticised for incomplete implementation of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive

The Advocate General of the Court of Justice has ruled in the case brought by the Commission against Belgium because of the incomplete and incorrect B…

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12/03/14
Bedrijfsjuristen en mededingingsrecht: wat valt onder het beroepsgeheim?

Door de recente aanpassing en verscherping van het Belgisch mededingingsrecht, zullen veel bedrijfsleiders zich de vraag stellen naar de status van de…

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04/03/14
Book X of the new Code of Economic law does not rationalize distribution law, but modifies certain aspects of …

Book X of the new Code of Economic Law ‘agency agreements, commercial partnership agreements and exclusive distribution agreements’ only repeats the e…

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03/03/14
The Late Payment Act has finally been amended

The Act of 22 November 2013, published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 10 December 2013, amends the Late Payment Act of 2 August 2002. The Act of 2…

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28/02/14
The Antwerp Court of Appeals interprets sales periods differently from the Court of Justice of the EU and the …

A recent decision rendered by the Court of Appeals of Antwerp sheds new light on the question of whether Belgian rules prohibiting announcements of pr…

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26/02/14
Transposition of Directive 2011/7/EU on combating late payments in commercial transactions

Public procurements – sanctions for late payments

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24/02/14
Execution of a contract passed by centralised purchasing

Centralised purchasing – Execution – Distribution of roles

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12/02/14
New Rules on Combating Late Payment in Commercial Transactions

Despite the adoption and implementation of Directive 2000/35/EC on combating late payment in commercial transactions, many payments in commercial tran…

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07/02/14
The Belgian Competition Authority adopts and codifies new dawn raid guidelines

The Belgian Competition Authority (“BCA”) is empowered to carry out dawn raids while investigating alleged breaches of competition law. Since 2011, th…

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04/02/14
Meerdere Boeken van het nieuw Wetboek van Economisch Recht in werking getreden.

Per Koninklijk Besluit van 8 december 2013 heeft de Koning het licht op groen gezet om meerdere boeken van het Wetboek van Economisch Recht van kracht…

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30/01/14
The new Commercial Practices Act

The Belgian legislature approved the new Commercial Practices Act and inserts the Act as Book VI in the Code of Economic Law. The Act was signed by th…

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28/01/14
Despite arbitration clauses, District Court of the Central Netherlands is competent to hear follow-on antitrus…

On 27 November 2013, the District Court of Central Netherlands declared itself competent to rule on antitrust damages claims against five Dutch elevat…

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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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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
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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