When submitted a request for a preliminary ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is expect to answer questions – not raise too many new ones.

The long-awaited amendment of Article 1500-7 of the Companies Act, clarifying that the financial assistance prohibition does not apply to Luxembourg private limited-liability companies, enters into force on 16 August 2021.

Belgian employment law has no specific rules applicable to company managers. As the Brussels Labour Court stated in a judgment issued on 19 April 2007, "Belgian employment law is characterised by a binary distinction between employees and self-employed persons".

On 19 December 2020, the Luxembourg Parliament voted into law the Budget Act 2021 (the "Budget Act").

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets has now published the notification form which non-EEA fund managers must use if they wish to rely on the Dutch private placement regime.

In January 2011, the European Commission published a Green Paper on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy ("Towards a more efficient European public procurement market", COM(2011)15, attached).

A pre-pack is the term used for the restructuring of a company through a transaction that is prepared as much as possible outside of formal insolvency proceedings, and whereby the enterprise survives but some or all of the company's debt is restructured.

These two figurative trade marks are not confusingly similar, according to the General Court of the EU.

The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg has adopted an article 50bis in the Income Tax Act 1967 at the end of 2007.

Today, the Court of Appeal of The Hague, the Netherlands, rendered an important judgment on the obligations of internet service providers vis-à-vis the entertainment industry.

Pursuant to Bill No 7791, submitted to the Luxembourg Parliament on 16 March 2020, Article 1500-7 of the Companies Act will be amended in order to clarify that the financial assistance prohibition does not apply to ...

On 7 January 2013, the Luxembourg financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier adopted circular CSSF 13/554 on the use and control of IT resources and the management of access to these resources.

Until the coming into force of the law of 21 December 2012 transposing Directive 2010/78/EU, Luxembourg investment advisors of undertakings for collective investments established in Luxembourg were expressively exempted from the scope of the law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector.

This summer, the Dutch Minister of Finance is expected to decide on the partial privatisation of the national power and gas transmission system operators, Tennet and Gas Transport Services.

The government recently announced that, before the middle of 2011, it will be publishing a draft bill containing new personal data protection rules for consultation purposes.

The Dutch Tax Plan 2013 and accompanying legislation contain a myriad of minor changes and amendments to Dutch tax legislation, but also two major changes to the Dutch Corporate Income Tax Act 1969.

After lengthy negotiations, Belgium's government-in-waiting has finally agreed on a budget for 2012.

On 15 September 2021, the Luxembourg minister for foreign and European affairs tabled a bill (no 7885) "establishing a national screening mechanism for foreign direct investments...

On 16 May 2022, the Luxembourg financial regulator (the "CSSF") released Circular 22/811 on the authorisation and organisation of entities acting as UCI administrators (the "Circular").

A draft bill of law introducing the AIFM Directive into the Luxembourg legal framework has been submitted to the Luxembourg Parliament on 24 August 2012.