Recasting Belgian Criminal Law: Key Changes To White-collar Offences

The Belgian Parliament has recently approved the draft bills recasting the first and second book of the Belgian criminal code. The reform aims at making the criminal code clearer and more accessible, but it also brings a few novelties, including for corporates a new regime of sanctions with eight levels of penalties, new types of sanctions, the increase of the fines applicable to corporations, the introduction of the offence "Ecocide", and adjustments to several white-collar offences. In this article, we discuss the adjustments to the main white-collar offences that corporates could potentially be charged with.

The present article, the second in our series on the recasting of Belgian criminal law, compiles the main adjustments to white-collar offences that corporates could potentially be charged with. Click here to read the first article in our series, which focuses on the main changes brought to general principles of criminal law that could potentially impact