La Cartographie des Directions juridiques 2025, réalisée par Wolters Kluwer, repose sur une enquête menée auprès de plus de 700 directions juridiques en Europe et aux États-Unis. Elle offre une vision claire et chiffrée des défis, priorités et évolutions du métier de juriste d’entreprise.
Current ESG Regulatory Landscape Since the start of 2025, we’ve observed a significant shift in the EU ESG regulatory landscape—from uncertainty to rollback. Although the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) entered into application in 2024 and has already been transposed…
Quelles sont les mesures attendues pour cet été ? Dans son accord de gouvernement du 31 janvier dernier, le gouvernement Arizona exposait plusieurs réformes structurelles notamment dans le domaine du marché du travail, des pensions et de la fiscalité. Dans le…
La directive européenne 2025/25 préfigure un avenir numérique et plus transparent pour le droit des sociétés. Elle simplifie la création et la gestion des sociétés et encourage la coopération transfrontalière. La Belgique doit transposer la directive en droit national d’ici…
Digitalisation is crucial for undertakings and organisations. The call for it has been around for a while but was brought even more prominently onto the agenda during and after the COVID-19 crisis. The latter raised questions such as: how can we sign electronically whilst preserving, to the greatest extent possible, equivalence with a wet ink signature? And can documents be maintained in electronic format only?
The new kid on the block in the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is the AI agent, an autonomous system capable of analysing situations, making independent decisions and performing tasks without human intervention. AI agents don’t need a new prompt each time they generate a response. They get a high-level task, and figure out how to complete it. While their capabilities offer significant opportunities, the autonomy inherent in AI agents also poses significant legal challenges.
On 6 December 2024, a significant new law regulating private investigations in Belgium was published, marking a substantial update to the outdated law of 19 July 1991.
Under its new leadership, the Belgian Competition Authority is increasing its enforcement activities and launched a number of initiatives and investigations that put it at the forefront of competition law developments in the European Union.
The legislative proposal for the federal Programme Act was introduced last week in the federal parliament and is expected to be voted on this month. One of the only employment law matters included in this first big reform of the…
Ce texte a été généré par GenIA-L, l’outil d’IA générative de Larcier-Intersentia, puis légèrement modifié Conseil n° 1 : Soyez conscient de l’impact du Livre 5 des Obligations, en vigueur depuis le 1er janvier 2023. Le Livre 5 a des implications importantes pour les contrats…
As of 1 July 2023, foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening has become an essential checkpoint for transactions involving foreign (non-EU) investors. With the European Parliament recently voting in favour of a reform of the European FDI framework aimed at strengthening…
Belgian companies listed on a regulated market (such as, in Belgium, Euronext Brussels) or a multilateral trading facility (MTF, such as, in Belgium, Euronext Growth or Euronext Access) are currently prohibited from issuing multiple voting shares. However, they may adopt…
Le monde juridique est en pleine mutation. La technologie, et plus particulièrement l’intelligence artificielle, change fondamentalement la manière dont nous fournissons des services juridiques. Parallèlement, le rôle du juriste d’entreprise a évolué ces dernières années : d’un gardien du droit…
In de context van toenemende digitalisering, cloud computing en AI-integratie worden IT-geschillen steeds complexer en internationaler. Bedrijven die vandaag betrokken raken in een conflict over software, SaaS-diensten, IT-outsourcing of beschikbaarheid van bedrijfsdata, ondervinden dat de traditionele gerechtelijke procedure vaak te traag en te technisch beperkt is.
On 24 March 2025, the Belgium Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) issued an important ruling regarding the classification of contractually agreed-upon compensations as wage, even if they are not directly linked to the work for the employer. Such compensations are recognized as “wages,” even when they are not directly linked to actual work performed.
