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Bdo welcomes new law firm bdo legal

BDO Belgium broadens its legal services with BDO Legal. A team of lawyers and paralegals will support Belgian and international businesses with specialised, pragmatic legal advice …

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Nouvelle et inutile attaque contre le secret professionnel

Ce 23 septembre 2025, la commission « Justice » de la Chambre a examiné la proposition de loi déposée par Mme Sophie De Wit et consorts (N.V.A.) « modifiant le Code pénal en vue d’…

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Zo laat je je cv opvallen als legal in-house professional

Het cv voor een in-house juridische functie samenstellen gaat verder dan zomaar een opsomming van titels en diploma’s. Het gaat erom hoe je ervaring én impact onder de aandacht bre…

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Court of Appeal of Ghent Clarifies Boundaries of Tax Investi…

On 24 June 2025, the Court of Appeal of Ghent delivered a comprehensive jud…

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EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) proposed delay: What busi…

On 23 September 2025, the European Commission announced its plan to postpon…

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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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Returning to the workplace – Part 4: Now you see me, now you don’t … Monitoring teleworkers’ productivity

The pandemic has given an enormous boost to working from home, in particular (to state the obvious) when it was mandatory. Where roles permitted it, e…

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Coronapremie is er!

Vandaag zijn in het Belgisch Staatsblad de regels rond de coronapremie verschenen. 

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Raad van State: een louter vernietigingsberoep zonder voorafgaande UDN-procedure in overheidsopdrachten kan!

De verwerende partij betoogde voor de Raad van State dat het beroep tot nietigverklaring niet ontvankelijk is wegens gebrek aan belang aangezien “het …

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Belgium extends and enhances paid bereavement leave

On 15 July 2021, Belgium published the law of 27 June 2021 "extending bereavement leave in the event of the death of a partner or child and introducin…

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New headscarf ruling from the European Court of Justice

On 15 July 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled in two German cases that a neutral dress code in the workplace does not constitute either direct …

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Returning to the workplace – Part 3: Off to town for a home office? (Belgium)

I will start this third part of our Working from Home series with a confession: I worked the first couple of weeks of lockdown from a small table drag…

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Vlaamse Regering wijzigt het Vlaams reglement i.v.m. het duurzaam beheer van materiaalkringlopen en afvalstoff…

De Vlaamse Regering nam in het kader van Europese regelgeving inzake afvalstoffen op 2 juli 2021 een besluit aan (Wijzigingsbesluit) tot wijziging van…

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Het lot van liquidatiereserves bij geruisloze fusies en partiële splitsingen: verlies liquidatieheffing!

Heel wat vennootschappen maken op vandaag gebruik van het regime van de liquidatiereserves. Mits betaling van een liquidatieheffing van 10% kunnen liq…

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European Commission unveils its 'Fit for 55' package

On Wednesday 14 July 2021, the European Commission took a major step to accomplish its ambitious goal of making Europe the first climate neutral conti…

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Cassatie verduidelijkt de omvang van de raadgevings- en bijstandsplicht van de architect t.a.v. de bouwheer/op…

Een beroep op de medewerking van een architect is verplicht voor het opmaken van de plannen en controle op de uitvoering van de werken waarvoor een vo…

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EU Court of Justice says headscarf ban is not discriminatory

Following the STIB judgement of 3 May 2021 by the Labour Court of Brussels, ordering the STIB to end its policy of neutrality due to discrimination on…

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Insolvency: Cash Is king: New Rules Against Late Payment

Late payment puts a substantial dent in companies’ cash flow and, ultimately, their continuity. In recent years, payment behavior between businesses (…

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Succession of fixed-term employment contracts and replacement contracts: the Constitutional Court rules on the…

On 17 June 2021, the Constitutional Court issued an important decision in which it ruled that the fact that there are no statutory prohibitions or lim…

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Volume ownership: a major change

Title 3 of the new Civil Code introduces the possibility of a horizontal division creating a perpetual volume ownership. This is a major change in Bel…

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Une marque non conventionnelle qui fait “pschitt”

Dans un arrêt du 7 juillet 2021 (T-668/19), le Tribunal de l’Union européenne s’est prononcé, pour la première fois, sur la validité d’un enregistreme…

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ECtHR rules on social media-linked dismissal in Melike v. Turkey

The European Court of Human Right’s ruling of 15 June 2021 concerned the dismissal of a contractual cleaning lady in an educational government service…

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Returning to the workplace, Part 2 - when working from home comes at a price

At the risk of kicking in an open door, working from home and the return to the office has become this summer’s hot topic. In Belgium the pandemi…

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La tierce décision obligatoire : quand y faire appel ?

Moins connue que la médiation ou l’arbitrage, la TDO peut s’avérer particulièrement efficace. Très flexible, elle permet aux entre…

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Vigilance de mise en cas de succession alternée de contrats de travail à durée déterminée et de contrats de re…

Règlementation distincte pour les contrats de travail conclus à durée déterminée (ou pour un travail nettement défini) et les contrats de remplacement…

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Whistleblowing – A Guide to Compliance: Part 4

Crowell & Moring LLP’s 2021 series of client alerts: Whistleblowing – A Guide to Compliance is intended to provide companies with a practical guid…

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