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Ronde van de Rechtsstaat - Opendeur van de vier hoge rechtscolleges Brussel - 25 oktober 2025

In het kader van de Europese dag voor Justitie zetten de vier hoge rechtscolleges hun deuren open: Grondwettelijk Hof, Hof van Cassatie, Raad van State en het Rekenhof. VRG-Alumni…

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De vernieuwde stageovereenkomst

Op 10 oktober 2025 trad het gewijzigde artikel 31 bis van de Codex Deontologie voor Advocaten in werking. Dat betekent dat alle stageovereenkomsten – zowel nieuwe als lopende – uit…

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Legal Geek Europe 2026

Legal Geek Europe returns on 14 April 2026 at De Hallen Studio’s, Amsterdam.

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Belgian draft law amending the Pillar 2 Law

On 9 October 2025, the Belgian government submitted to Parliament a draft l…

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Maximum wage cost increase margin for the 2025-2026 period s…

On 22 September 2025, the Royal Decree of 12 September 2025 implementing ar…

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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Belgian and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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Belgian Finance Minister considers new TP Documentation Rules

Against the backdrop of the OECD action plan against Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), the Belgian minister of Finance has announced that trans…

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Social Elections 2016

Next year, in the course of the month of May, social elections for the designation of the personnel representatives at the committee for prevention an…

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Update on the use of the plasticizer DEHP in medical devices

On 17 July 2015, the Council and the European Parliament published a latest version of their Proposal for a Regulation on medical devices and amending…

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Tax structuring: what is still permitted?

After the implementation of the new, Federal, tax abuse provision, the Administrative Circular 8/2012 officially blacklisted the so-called “split deal…

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Legal and Commercial Guarantees for Online Sales

On 1 June 2015, the economic inspectorate of the FPS Finance participated in a European investigation intended to detect violations of the guarantee l…

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De aanbreng van cliënteel en het concurrentiebeding bij handelsvertegenwoordigers

In heel wat arbeidsovereenkomsten voor handelsvertegenwoordigers wordt quasi automatisch een concurrentiebeding voorzien. Waarom zou men dit als werkg…

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The year of the Cayman

The long awaited look-through tax, also referred to as the ‘Cayman tax’, has finally been adopted by the Belgian Federal Parliament on 24 July 2015. A…

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Hertekent Europa straks ons systeem van reprografierechten?

Auteurs en uitgevers krijgen voor het kopiëren van hun beschermde werken een compensatie. Deze compensatie heet ‘reprografie’-vergoeding. Beheersvenno…

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Weldra maaltijdcheques van 8 EUR!

De maximale werkgeverstussenkomst in de maaltijdcheques wordt met 1 EUR verhoogd. Ze wordt dus van 5,91 EUR op 6,91 EUR gebracht.

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Belgian laws on Consumer Credit and Residential Mortgage Credit – recent changes

In recent years, the Belgian Parliament has codified substantial parts of Belgian economic legislation into a new Code of Economic Law. This …

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Régimes dérogatoires applicables aux OPC mais quels OPC ? Position de l’administration

La législation fiscale belge prévoit divers régimes dérogatoires applicables aux OPC qui se réfèrent à la loi du 3 aout 2012 « relative à certaines fo…

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Belgian and German settlement decisions highlight "hub-and-spoke" and retail price maintenance practices

The Belgian and German competition authorities handed down settlement decisions for hub-and-spoke and retail price maintenance practices. These settle…

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Honey, is that a drone outside our bathroom window?

Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), are not new. Indeed, drones were first developed in the '50s and ha…

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Belgian Privacy Commission Urges Facebook to Improve Compliance

On 13 May 2015, the Belgian Privacy Commission (Commissie voor de bescherming van de persoonlijke levenssfeer/Commission de la protection de la vie pr…

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Acquisition through a joint venture: have you thought of the competition law aspects ?

Real estate investments are increasingly being channelled through joint ventures. Although this can be a helpful investment structure, joint venture a…

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Outplacement et statut unique: pas de discrimination selon la Cour constitutionnelle

Dans son arrêt du 25 juin 2015, la Cour constitutionnelle a eu à traiter d’un recours en annulation introduit notamment à l’encontre des dispositions …

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TAXE - A Fundamental Shift in Ruling Practice?

The LuxLeaks financial scandal, which entailed disclosure by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists of tax rulings, galvanized publ…

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Tenants in distress

Belgian Insolvency law mainly consists of two separate regimes: bankruptcy (Belgian Bankruptcy Act of 8 August 1997) and judicial reorganisation (Belg…

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Sterfhuisclausule: fiscaal dood en bijna begraven

Het gebruik van een zogenaamde “sterfhuisclausule” is al enkele jaren een doorn in het oog van de fiscus. De sterfhuisclausule is een huwelijksve…

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EU Commission's Skyteam decision confirms room for Efficiency Defense

On 29 June 2015, the Commission published a summary of its decision to clear a joint venture between Air France/KLM, Alitalia and Delta Airlines …

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