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On 16 December 2026, the transitional period provided by the legislator for the implementation of internal regulations under the Belgian Private Investigation Act (PIA) will come to an end. From that date onwards, employers conducting private investigations involving employees must have PIA-compliant internal regulations in place.

Urgent requests, scattered contracts, deadlines tracked manually. When a legal department spends most of its time dealing with issues as they arise, there is little room left for strategic work. Legal Ops introduces a different way of operating. By applying…

Dienstencontracten vormen de ruggengraat van het moderne IT-contractenlandschap in België. Sinds de invoering van Boek 7 van het Burgerlijk Wetboek (BW) is het dienstencontract (of “aanneming”) de centrale contractsvorm voor IT-dienstverlening, al blijven ook onbenoemde overeenkomsten (zoals softwarelicenties) en koopcontracten een rol spelen.

On 1 September 2026, Belgium’s new Criminal Code entered into force. In parallel, many specific criminal laws have been amended to align with the new general criminal law framework. This includes Belgium’s Economic Sanctions Law, which governs the implementation of restrictive measures adopted by the Council of the European Union.

EU Member States had to transpose the European Pay Transparency Directive into national law by 7 June 2026. The Directive aims to strengthen the principle of equal pay for women and men performing equal work or work of equal value.…

The Article 14 CRA reporting obligation applies from 11 September 2026; the remainder of the CRA generally applies from 11 December 2027. Readiness is now an incident-response issue. Know your reporting route, have your Authorised Representatives (ARs) in place, and maintain an escalation process capable of running against the 24-hour clock.

Het gouden argument zit in een juridisch dossier vaak in een minderheidsstandpunt of een recent arrest. Maar krijgen die ook de aandacht die ze verdienen wanneer AI een antwoord formuleert? Of geven taalmodellen van nature meer gewicht aan bekende auteurs, dominante rechtsopvattingen en vaak geciteerde rechtspraak? Het antwoord ligt in de wisselwerking tussen technologie en content. Met krachtige AI die gebouwd is op gezaghebbende bronnen, samengesteld en geactualiseerd door juridische experts, is de juiste informatie snel vindbaar – ook de uitzonderingen.

There was a time when “we’re just the platform” was close to a legal magic word. Host the content, don’t look too closely, and Article 14 of the e-Commerce Directive (now Article 6 of the Digital Services Act) would generally…

Internal investigations have become increasingly formalised and strategically important within corporate governance and compliance frameworks. Organisations investigate allegations of fraud, conflicts of interest, data misuse, breaches of internal policy, unfair competition, expense irregularities and many other workplace issues. These investigations…

The flexi-job system was introduced by the Act 16 November 2015 stipulating various provisions in social matters.

Initially, the system only applied to hotels, restaurants and pubs. The key idea was that people employed for at least 80% of the full-time working time could take a second job in a hotel, restaurant or pub and they would get favourable tax and social security conditions on the remuneration earned in the second job.

On 25 June 2026, Aubry Daerden (Partner), Ward Overlaet (Associate), and Anass Arbage (Associate) from the Brussels office of Crowell & Moring LLP presented a webinar titled "The M&A Process Step by Step: A Practical Guide for Junior Legal Counsel." The session was organized for the Belgian Institute for Company Lawyers (IBJ / IJE) and offered a practice-oriented walkthrough of the main phases, documents, and negotiation dynamics that structure M&A deals. This article summarizes the key insights shared during that session.

On 7 May 2026, the European Commission adopted a new delegated regulation (C(2026) 2876) amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/980 (the “Amended Delegated Regulation”).

The Belgian pension reform set out in the 2025–2029 government agreement aims to improve the financial sustainability of the system and to progressively harmonise the rules applicable to employees, self-employed workers and public sector employees. Some measures have already been…

Held on 21-22 May in Copenhagen, the 12th Energy Infrastructure Forum brought together EU institutions, system operators, regulators, project promoters, financial institutions and civil society under the co-organisation of the European Commission and the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities.

Unlike a dismissal, which is a unilateral act, a termination by mutual consent is based on the agreement of both employer and employee. It stems from the general contractual principle that parties may end a contract through their mutual will.

In a decision dated 6 May 2026 (No. 97/2026), the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) once again underlines how far-reaching the GDPR right of access really is.