An employee who is dismissed with a notice period or who performs a notice period after resigning is entitled to so-called "job search leave"...

What every posting employer and (Belgian) service user should know about the Limosa notification. A foreign employer posting workers to Belgium must file a Limosa with the Belgian Social Security Office...

The Brussels' Labour Court recently ruled that the evidence that an employer had gathered after exploring its employee's email inbox was unlawful. The employer's subsequent termination for ‘just cause'...

In its Coalition Agreement, the government had already announced that during this legislative term, the maximum amount of meal vouchers would be increased twice by 2 EUR.

Brexit dismantled the Brussels I Recast regime for the UK and resulted in a fragmented framework of domestic rules and a residual treaty.

On 21 September 2023, the EU Court of Justice (‘CJEU') handed down its ruling in the Apotheke B. case (C-47/22), and it is a good example of the high threshold set by the EU Court of Justice...

The Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulation (EU) 2019/6 has applied in the EU since 28 January 2022, replacing Directive 2001/82/EC. The new rules on good manufacturing practice (GMP) will in turn...

The new Product Liability Directive ("PLD") replaced the old Product Liability Directive (Directive 85/375/EEC) and aims to bring the European Union's product liability regime...

The employer and employee organisations in the National Labour Council have added a new chapter to the well-known CBA 32bis on the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event...

Belgium introduces significant reforms to pharmaceutical law through the Act of 30 May 2026, addressing critical medicine shortages through enhanced export controls and stock allocation measures. The legislation also modernizes the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products' operational framework and adapts clinical trial regulations to support decentralized research models.

On 22 September 2023, the Royal Decree of 13 September 2023 establishing specific rules on the public procurement of biological medicinal products was published in the Belgian State Gazette...

Pre-packaged sales, or "pre-packs," have long been utilized in the United Kingdom and the United States as a restructuring mechanism that enables the sale of a distressed business to be arranged...

The rules on the duration and termination of insurance contracts governed by Belgian law have often been found overly formalistic and complex, especially by consumers.

CEPANI, the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, has issued new Arbitration Rules entering into force on 1 June 2026, building on the modernisation achieved in the 2020...

As of 1 January 2026, Title 1 "Personal securities" of Book IX "Securities" of the new Belgian Civil Code has entered into force and does apply to all new personal securities being...

The EU General Court delivered a significant judgment concerning access to documents held by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), this time relating to a conditionally authorised COVID-19 vaccine.

Belgian online traders face a new legal requirement to implement a mandatory 'withdraw here' button on their webshops by 19 June 2026. This EU directive fundamentally changes how consumers exercise...

In Belgium, employers' social security contributions have always been due on an employee's full uncapped salary. The Programme Act of 18 July 2025 caused a ‘minor earthquake' by introducing...

Every year, Belgium’s federal ministers publish their policy notes for discussion in Parliament. They give a high-level snapshot of what each minister plans to focus on in the coming year.

Under the EU's REACH Regulation 1907/2006, substances must be registered with the European Chemicals Agency before being imported.