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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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04/08/25
04/08/25
Promotion at DALDEWOLF

DALDEWOLF is pleased to announce the promotion of Lucie MARCHAL to the position of Counsel in the European Union Law team.

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04/07/25
04/07/25
Goodwin Expands Global Antitrust and EU Regulatory Footprint with New Brussels Office

Goodwin has opened a new office in Brussels, the epicenter for EU policy, legislation and enforcement. Together with Goodwin’s existing US and UK-based Antitrust and Competition t…

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08/10/25
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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06/10/25
CJEU: the limitation period starts once the decision of the …

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its long-awaite…

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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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09/05/11
Consultation on EMA recommendations on pack design and labelling for non-prescription medicinal products

On 1 April 2011, the European Medecines Agency released recommendations (for a three-month public consultation period) on pack design and labelling fo…

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09/05/11
Legal revisions as regards pharmacovigilance

The new Directive 2010/84/EU improves the provisions of European Union law on the pharmacovigilance of medicinal products.

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09/05/11
Trans-border healthcare: a new experience

Two ophthalmologists, a Dutchman and a Belgian, have undertaken a project that has given birth to a trans-border structure aimed at bringing experienc…

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09/05/11
New regulation sets out ecodesign requirements for motor-driven fans

On April 6 2011 EU Regulation 327/2011/EC was published in the Official Journal,imposing a novel ecodesign measure on manufacturers and importers of f…

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09/05/11
Revision of 'Clinical Trials' Directive 2001/20/EC

The European Commission starts a public consultation on the revision of Directive 2001/20/EC.

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06/05/11
Consultation of European regulation applying to the financing of public service missions

Following a public consultation, the Commission announced a reform of its rules concerning state aid for public service missions.

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06/05/11
Review of European rules on the financing of airports

The European Commission launched on 7 April 2011 a public consultation on the application of its rules concerning state aid in the aviation sector.

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06/05/11
Procter & Gamble and two of its competitors have been involved in a cartel settlement procedure

At the end of this procedure, the Commission imposed reduced fines on three major European washing powder producers for operating a cartel that involv…

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12/04/11
The ECJ’s ruling of 1 March 2011: the end of gender-based insurance pricing in Europe

In Belgium, until now, differences in premiums and benefits in life insurance have been permitted by the Act of 21 December 2007. It was this Act agai…

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11/04/11
Tax aspects of an acquisition of own shares

From a tax point of view, an acquisition of own shares can be interesting especially when economic or financial reasons to do so also exist.

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06/04/11
Tax exemption on migration of company’s seat extended to all Belgian companies

The transfer of a Belgian company’s seat to another Member State of the European Union can benefit from the tax exemption, if the operation affects a …

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05/04/11
The European Commission publishes a guide to taking account of social considerations in public procurement

Public procurements – social considerations – European Commission’s practical guide.

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05/04/11
De European Commission publishes a green paper on the modernisation of EU procurement policy

Public procurements – consultation – proposal of Legal modifications

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25/03/11
New rules affecting EU legislature's powers to have negative impact on trade

On March 1 2011 Regulation 182/2011 entered into force. The new regulation sets out new rules on the exercise of implementing powers by the European C…

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24/03/11
Dutch Courts apply ECJ Google ruling on keywords

Over the past years much has been said and written about a party using keywords for its ads, where those keywords are identical to another party's tra…

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22/03/11
Commission issues guidance on standardised mobile phone charger

On February 8 2011 the European Commission published a question-and-answer document to explain the issues surrounding the common mobile phone charger …

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21/03/11
Sinds 1 januari 2011: BTW op nieuw gebouw en bijhorend terrein

Tot 1 januari 2011 waren verkopen van onroerende goederen van BTW vrijgestelde handelingen. De verkoop van een nieuw gebouw viel wel reeds onder het B…

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04/03/11
The EU Commission keeps a strong watch on horizontal cooperation agreements

The recently adopted European new rules concerning horizontal cooperation agreements are already being applied by the EU Commission.

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04/03/11
Last chance to participate to a consultation on the EU framework dealing with future bank failures

This consultation is part of the Commission’s ongoing efforts to establish a comprehensive set of measures dealing with possible banking failures.

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04/03/11
Commission’s investigation on the aids allocated to Ducroire and SECA BT

The two export credit insurance companies were granted with capital injections from their respective Sates at the moment of their foundation. The Comm…

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