Le 1^er août 2023, la nouvelle loi relative au Registre central des interdictions de gérer est entrée en vigueur.

Belgium is now in line with the European Working Time Directive when it concerns the non-loss of holidays when employees fall ill during their holidays.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has an important impact on financial entities but also on IT suppliers and cloud service providers. DORA’s main goal is to prevent and mitigate cyber threats.

Le principe de base en Belgique est que chacun est libre d’exercer tout commerce, toute profession, tout métier ou toute activité économique, comme il l’entend.

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On 25 July 2023, a new hydrogen law to regulate hydrogen transport through pipelines was published in the Belgian State Gazette.

Expansion of Belgium’s anti-discrimination. Legislation: Multiple discrimination and discrimination by association and assumption explicitly prohibited by law.

Ces dernières années, un certain nombre de nouvelles lois ont été adoptées et ont une incidence sur la rédaction des contrats commerciaux, comme l'entrée en vigueur, le 1er janvier 2023, du livre 5 du nouveau Code civil (CC), ainsi que le Deal pour l’emploi et d’autres lois en matière de droit du travail.

The social partners have agreed that from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2025, employers and employees in all sectors will again be able to make use of additional voluntary overtime, or "relance hours". 

Copyrights are very prone to large-scale infringements in the digital world. The European Commission addressed rightsholders’ concerns in this regard through Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive), which was implemented in Belgium by the act of 19 June 2022 (the Act).

Article 15(3) GDPR provides that, at the request of the data subject, the controller must provide a “copy” of the personal data that have been processed and, if the request is made electronically, provide the “information” in a commonly used electronic form.

Un juriste d'entreprise doit avoir plus d'une corde à son arc et combiner ses connaissances juridiques avec d'autres compétences.

Based on our two decades of experience as a trusted legal recruitment partner, we've seen legal departments go through some major changes.

On 22 March, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Directive on Green Claims (“Green Claims Proposal”). The key objective of the Green Claims Proposal is to combat “greenwashing” and to enable consumers to contribute in accelerating the green transition by making informed purchasing decisions based on credible environmental claims and labels.