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14/08/25
14/08/25
Legal tech company Afriwise acquires LawExplorer and boosts regulatory intelligence in Africa

Afriwise, Africa’s fastest-growing legal-intelligence platform founded by Belgian lawyer Steven De Backer, has acquired LawExplorer, South Africa’s most established provider of reg…

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05/05/25
05/05/25
Promotions at Clifford Chance Brussels

Clifford Chance announces the promotion of 31 partners to the global partnership, and four new Senior Counsel and forty new Counsel appointments across our European offices, 8 of w…

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19/11/24
19/11/24
Liberius welcomes new EU Competition and Trade Law Partner in Brussels

Liberius is thrilled to announce the arrival of David Henry as a Partner in its Brussels-based EU, Competition & Trade Practice. David, a member of the Brussels Bar and a quali…

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06/10/25
EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) proposed delay: What busi…

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

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01/10/25
Shrinkflation – are brands and supermarkets required to info…

As inflation continues to exert pressure on retail prices, brands and super…

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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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16/09/14
Belgian Competition Authority adopts new fining guidelines

On 26 August 2014, the Board of the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") decided to replace its Communication of 19 December 2011 on the calculation …

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15/09/14
Legal interest rate for late payment in commercial transactions

On 5 September 2014, a notice was published in the Official Gazette regarding the legal interest rate for late payment in commercial transactions.

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20/08/14
Duty to Disclose when Making Ex Parte Request for Anti-counterfeiting Seizure

On 30 April 2014, the Court of Appeal of Antwerp (the “Court of Appeal”) confirmed the invalidation of the ex parte order granting an anti-counterfeit…

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18/08/14
The European Parliament approves directive on damages claims in the event of antitrust violations

On 17 April 2014, the European Parliament approved a proposal for a directive which will bring in rules to help victims of infringements of antitrust …

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11/08/14
General Court reduces ExxonMobile's fine in the paraffin wax cartel

On 11 July 2014 the General Court ("GC") rendered its decision T-540/08 on appeal by Esso Deutschland GmbH, Esso S.A., ExxonMobil Petroleum and Chemic…

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06/08/14
The filing of a complaint before a competition authority

On 26 May 2014, the European Commission dismissed the antitrust complaint filed by Federauto (the Italian trade association of car retailers) against …

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05/08/14
Ignoring the stand-still obligation under the EU Merger Control Regulation ("EMCR") leads to very high fines

Ignoring the stand-still obligation under the EU Merger Control Regulation ("EMCR") leads to very high fines. This was confirmed by European Commissio…

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22/07/14
Vices cachés – Vente/Achat d’immeuble

Le vendeur d’un immeuble sera tenté de prévoir une clause (dénommée clause d’exonération) dans le contrat de vente qui précise qu’il « ne donne aucune…

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18/07/14
Will the fight against late payments be more effective?

The justices of the peace and the commercial courts have new competences as from 1 July 2014.

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24/06/14
ECJ Reconfirms Compatibility of Belgian Opening Hours Legislation With EU Law

In a judgment of 8 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) held that it has no jurisdiction to examine the compatibility of the B…

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11/06/14
Update: Entering into force of the Code of Economic Law

Several books and provisions of the Code of Economic Law will enter into force, pursuant to various royal decrees enacted by the Belgian legislator.

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05/06/14
Appeals against use of dawn raid documents in Belgium suspend the time limitation periods

The new Belgian Competition Act, which entered into force on 6 September 2013, introduced a possibility to appeal decisions of the Belgian competition…

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02/06/14
Patents and competition law

The Commission adopted on 29 April 2014 two decisions regarding the application of EU Competition law on standard essential patents regarding on one h…

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28/05/14
The Brussels Court of Appeal annuls cartel fine on the basis of the ne bis in idem principle

On 28 February 2013, the Belgian Competition Council imposed fines on five flour mills for participating in a cartel on the market for the production …

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27/05/14
The EU Power Cables Case: Antitrust Parental Liability of Private Equity Management Companies

On 2 April 2014, the European Commission imposed fines totalling EUR 301.6 million on eleven producers of underground and submarine high voltage power…

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26/05/14
EUR 302,000,000 fines for a cartel between producers of high voltage power cables

On 2 April 2014, the Commission fined producers of high voltage power cables EUR 302,000,000 for a cartel to split the market and to allocate customer…

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21/05/14
Dawn raids of the Belgian Competition Authority

On 3 April 2014, the Belgian Competition Authority confirmed it had carried out dawn raids on different companies active in the chicken-feeding indust…

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08/05/14
The Court of Justice rules on internal fine allocation between companies belonging to the same undertaking and…

On 10 April 2014, the Court of Justice handed down two judgments concerning the gas insulated switchgear cartel (Joint cases C-231/11, C-232/11 P and …

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07/05/14
Update - how can a trademark owner claim back a domain name?

If you are a trademark owner, and you find that someone else has registered a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to your trademark, …

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30/04/14
Antitrust and technology transfer agreements

On 29 March 2014, the European Commission adopted a revised competition regime for technology transfer agreements.

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