As from 1 April 2011 several significant provisions of the Act "Wijziging van de Gaswet en de Elektriciteitswet 1998, tot versterking van de werking van de gasmarkt, verbetering van de voorzieningszekerheid en houdende regels met betrekking tot de voorrang voor duurzame elektriciteit, alsmede enkele andere wijzigingen van deze wetten.

The Council of the European Union has recently adopted a new directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations.

For quite some time now, discussions have been ongoing both in the Netherlands and abroad as to the measures that should be taken in order to prevent a repetition of the financial crisis.

A discussion on the most important amendments to the Electricity Act 1998, the Gas Act and the Heating Supply Act, brought in by a series of bills deriving from the legislative programme known as STROOM.

On 3 August 2012, the Belgian Parliament adopted long-awaited legislation on covered bonds as well as an act on the use of receivables for financing purposes.

On 13 September 2012, the Dutch Ministry of Finance published a document in which the Ministry describes which amendments will be made to the consultation version of the Amendment Decree financial markets 2013.

The European Commission imposed fines totalling EUR 301.6 million on eleven producers of underground and submarine high voltage power cables.

On 5 July 2011, the Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation submitted a bill to the lower chamber of the Dutch Parliament containing amendments to the Heat Act (Warmtewet).

This newsletter discusses the legislative proposal for a Financial Institutions (Special Measures) Act (Wet bijzondere maatregelen financiële ondernemingen; "Intervention Act") that was submitted to the lower house of the Dutch Parliament on 26 October 2011 by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Security and Justice.

Under the PPAs, SunPower, which is controlled by French oil company Total, and LAP's San Juan will supply 60 per cent of the transport system's energy demands.

A list of the most recent legislative updates relating to energy and utilities.

The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has decided to modify the rules on short selling of shares in Belgian financial institutions, effective 13 February 2012, by replacing the interim ban on the holding of net short positions with a reporting obligation for substantial net short positions and a locate rule.

On 20 September 2012 the consultation document for the Amendment Act Financial Markets 2014 was published.

The U.S. company Interflora Inc. operates a worldwide flower-delivery network

1 April 2011 will go down in collective memory as the date of the reorganisation of the supervisory structure for the financial sector in Belgium, prompted by the 2008 financial crisis.

On July 3 2012 the Prospectus Revision Law was passed.

On 13 October 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered a decision in Pierre Fabre v. Autorité de la Concurrence (case C-439/09).

In an attempt to regulate offering of co-investment opportunities to investors (or LPs) of Alternative Investment Funds ("AIFs")...

Nemo auditur propriam turpitudinem allegans – in what way can parties invoke their own misconducts to claim rights?

"The workplace is the crucible in which a society is forged"