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.

On 28 April 2023 a royal decree was published in the Belgian Official Gazette which offers companies that achieved (exceptionally) high profits in 2022 the possibility to grant a purchasing power premium to their employees.

Corporate legal departments are facing challenges such as decreasing budgets, increasing workloads, and pressure to provide more cost-effective legal services. In fact, 92% of organisations say they are changing the way the legal function operates and taking steps to address the most pressing challenges. 

Le Règlement général sur la protection des données, plus connu sous le nom de «RGPD», est connu dans le monde entier, depuis son entrée en vigueur en 2018, pour son strict régime de sanctions. Il prévoit notamment des amendes pouvant atteindre 20 millions d'euros ou 4 % du chiffre d'affaires annuel mondial du responsable de la violation.

The current instruments - in the form of the EU merger control and EU state aid rules - do not provide sufficient protection against the specific problems and unfair competition that non-EU subsidies bring.

The new Foreign Subsidies Regulation ('FSR' or 'Regulation') entered into force on 12 January 2023. Under this Regulation, the European Commission ('Commission') has far-reaching powers to block mergers, acquisitions and joint-ventures ('mergers') and bids in public tenders and even retroactively dissolve certain mergers where foreign investment distorts competition in the EU internal market.

Ever since the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the world has been gasping at the astonishing accomplishments of this generative AI chatbot:  a simple “prompt” in the form of a question (“which are the most important decisions of the CJEU in copyright?”) will receive a credible response within seconds (“The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued several important decisions in the field of copyright law.

In a noble attempt to address distortions caused by foreign subsidies to the detriment of fair competition, the EU has introduced the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (‘FSR’), which will take its full effect on 12 October 2023.

Un nouveau projet de loi, approuvé le 27 avril 2023, modifie les règles relatives au recouvrement des créances vis-à-vis des consommateurs. A cet effet, un tout nouveau livre XIX intitulé " Des dettes de consommation " sera inséré dans le Code de droit économique.