Pursuant to Article 39 of the Bankruptcy Act, in the event of a lessee's bankruptcy both the lessor and the receiver have the right to prematurely terminate the lease agreement (if it is still running), with due observance of a notice period of no more than three months.

The Rovi/Gemstar companies are engaged in a pan-European effort to enforce a patent portfolio relating to electronic television programming guides.

The Article 29 Working Party, an advisory body composed of representatives of the European Commission, the EU data protection supervisor and the data protection authorities of all EU Member States, has recently issued Opinion 03/2013 on Purpose Limitation.

The Luxembourg act of 28 October 2022 introducing the procedure of administrative dissolution without liquidation (procédure de dissolution administrative sans liquidation...

On 13 November 2012 the upper house of the Dutch parliament passed the Corporate Governance Act.

Despite the European Commission's pledge to continue to seek the full exchange of financial information, the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) reported a few days ago on its website that two new agreements to resolve outstanding tax issues will enter into effect in 2013, with Germany and the United Kingdom, respectively.

The Court of Appeals of The Hague has recently ruled that healthcare insurance companies, by inviting parties to bid in a tender to become the preferred supplier of a medicinal product which is still under patent protection, do not infringe the originator's patent and do not commit an "unlawful act".

The Dutch Data Protection Authority has recently published its new guidelines on the protection of personal data.

On 17 October 2013, NautaDutilh's Tax and Employment teams will organise a client seminar on, amongst other topics, the tax and social security consequences of BYOD plans.

The IP Translator case decided by the European Court of Justice on 19 June 2012 already raised much interest and OHIM even changed its practice overnight after the decision of the ECJ.

It is well known that the EU rules on personal data protection (set out in Directive 95/46/EC and implementing national law) are rather stringent when it comes to the transfer of personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), including the input of personal data originating in the EU on a server outside the EEA.

Over the past three years, Belgian listed companies have made considerable progress in complying with corporate governance rules.

In a previous issue of this newsletter, we discussed a decision of the European Court of Justice ("ECJ"), ruling that the Belgian withholding tax rules on dividends paid by Belgian companies to non-resident corporate shareholders were incompatible with the free movement of capital.

The European Commission approved a new action plan outlining future initiatives in the areas of company law and corporate governance for the purpose of improving corporate competitiveness and sustainability.

Yesterday, the European Court of Justice ruled on the question whether - in short - article 6:13 of the General Administrative Law Act

In a judgment of 5 March 2013, the Brussels Court of Appeal set out the conditions under which the Belgian Competition Authority can seize documents when investigating competition law violations.

The interpretation of the concept 'acting in concert' as used in the Takeover Directive raises many unanswered questions.

An SPC relating to active ingredients not specified in the wording of the claims of the basic patent cannot be granted.

As from 11 June 2013, DNS-LU will allow claimants to introduce a request to "freeze" a given .lu domain name, meaning that the domain name cannot be traded to someone else for an initial period of 1 year.

On 5 July 2012 the lower house of the Dutch parliament passed the Corporate Governance Bill.