Het Instituut voor bedrijfsjuristen (IBJ) is de beroepsorde voor 2620 bedrijfsjuristen in België

Under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), manufacturers of products with digital elements (PDEs) must keep handling vulnerabilities and providing security updates for years after the product has left the factory. This applies to standalone software, software embedded in hardware and standalone hardware alike. The duration of that obligation is set by the support period. For most product manufacturers, this is an unfamiliar idea. EU product legislation has traditionally stopped at the moment a product is placed on the market or has limited mandatory support to consumers. The CRA does not. This blog post explains what the support period is, how manufacturers must determine and communicate it, and why it breaks with the logic of the New Legislative Framework (NLF), the common model on which EU product legislation is built.

Het is een mantra waar veel organisaties nog altijd in geloven: “bigger is better”. Meer mensen betekent toch meer slagkracht, meer expertise en dus hogere productiviteit en betere resultaten. In dit artikel bekijken we de andere kant en focussen we net op de voordelen van kleinere teams: ze zijn wendbaarder, de communicatie loopt vlotter, er is meer onderling vertrouwen en teamleden nemen meer verantwoordelijkheid.

Introduction In its judgment of 1 June 2026, the Court of Cassation ruled on two questions that regularly arise in employment disputes. Firstly, does the transitional two-step calculation of the notice period apply to an employee whose seniority dates from…