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Information exchange has always been a tricky area within which to undertake a competitive assessment. It is very fact-specific and whether or not exchanges fall foul of the competition...

After the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in 2022, the EU has now also enacted a second directive aiming at improving the ESG and corporate social responsibility of companies active within the EU.

Addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the key objectives of the EU’s legislative reform. However, the development pipeline for new effective antimicrobials is obstructed, primarily due to a profound market failure: the low commercial value of the antimicrobial medicinal product market (costly development versus naturally limited market). In short, the market alone cannot deliver the solutions urgently needed to address AMR.

The rise of remote work has fundamentally reshaped the modern workplace.

A few months later, Malcon learnt that an amicable settlement had been reached by Iraq and BBT.

On 27 April 2017, the President of the Dutch-language Commercial Court of Brussels decided a case concerning the repackaging of parallel imported pharmaceuticals, in which it applied the so-called...

A Belgian court has ruled that arbitration clauses in international franchise agreements can override local franchisee protections, even when disputes involve Belgium's Pre-Contractual Information Act. This landmark decision extends earlier Supreme Court precedent and fundamentally shifts how protective legislation interacts with contractual dispute resolution mechanisms in cross-border franchise relationships.

The proposal for a new Book 7 for the Belgian Civil Code contains important changes to the current risk allocation between employer and contractor, e.g., in the context of the management of other contractors...

Construction companies entering into joint venture (JV) contracts should be cautious of entering into agreements where the responsibility for...

On 1 July 2024, the law introducing Book 6 of the New Civil Code was published in the Belgian Official Gazette.

On 30 June 2022, the European Parliament and the Council reached political agreement on a draft EU regulation aimed at preventing foreign subsidies from distorting competition in the EU single market (Foreign Subsidies Regulation, FSR)...

A discussion on the refusal to sell in the automotive sector.

The European Union's new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation fundamentally transforms packaging compliance across the EU by replacing the existing directive with a uniform, directly applicable framework.

On February 6, 2017, Belgium's financial regulator, Belgian FSMA, moved to fortify the protection of investors, publishing a position paper on the application of Belgium's rules on unfair contract terms to offers of investment instruments in Belgium.

Belgium's new Book 7 of the Civil Code preserves the existing hotel operator liability regime unchanged due to international treaty obligations under the 1962 Paris Convention. The restructured provisions maintain liability caps, mandatory safekeeping duties, and unlimited liability exceptions that have governed the hospitality sector since 1970.

On 23 April 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) imposed its first ever fines under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple and Meta were fined for failing to comply with their respective obligations under the DMA...

The dispute concerned various marketing communications of Delhaize emphasising the absence of palm oil in its private-label hazelnut spread.