Het Instituut voor bedrijfsjuristen (IBJ) is de beroepsorde voor 2398 bedrijfsjuristen in België

In November 2023, Belgium partially transposed Directive (EU) 2019/882 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (the European Accessibility Act). It was transposed through the Belgian Accessibility Act, amending several books of the Belgian Code of Economic Law (the CEL) and the law of 2 August 2002 on the supervision of the financial sector and financial services.

A hospital decided to proceed with the dismissal of an employee who combined the roles of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Data Protection Officer (DPO). Under the GDPR, a DPO cannot be dismissed or penalised for performing their duties. Although Belgian law and the GDPR do not provide for a specific protection compensation for DPOs, the court awarded a compensation equivalent to three months’ salary.

On February 26, the European Commission presented its Clean Industrial Deal (CID). As a follow-up to the European Green Deal, the CID aims to strengthen the competitiveness of European industry while at the same time accelerating the decarbonization of the economy.

Greenwashing has emerged as a major challenge in public procurement. While the European Union is tightening regulations with Directive 2024/825 on unfair commercial practices and preparing new legislation to regulate explicit environmental claims (the Green Claims Directive), public procurement is becoming both a fertile ground for misleading practices and a key arena for challenging them.

De regels die bepalen welk land bevoegd is voor de sociale zekerheid (“aanwijsregels”) zijn vastgelegd in de Europese Verordeningen 883/2004 en 987/2009, die van toepassing zijn in de lidstaten van de Europese Economische Ruimte of Zwitserland.

On 31 January 2025, the new Federal Government (“De Wever I”, also called “Arizona”) reached a coalition agreement.

Rising absenteeism due to incapacity for work is a growing concern for many employers. Such absences can significantly disrupt the organisation and productivity of a business. Faced with prolonged or repeated absences, employers often find themselves questioning whether dismissing an…

Since Donald Trump’s election to a second term as President of the United States, the possibility of U.S. trade measures against the European Union became more tangible.