Perhaps best known worldwide for its Trappist breweries, Belgium
is increasingly hospitable to business regulation. It is among the
many countries that have recently introduced new laws and created
new agencies to regulate business practices that have undermined
economic competition. In April 2013, Belgium revised its Code of
Economic Law ("Code") to implement a simplified
competition enforcement regime. (The revised Code section is
available here.)
Newly revamped is the Belgian Competition Authority
("BCA"), the agency charged with investigating and
enforcing Belgian competition law. The BCA now comprises four
sub‑units: (1) the BCA President; (2) the Competition
College, which holds decision-making powers for the BCA; (3) the
Competition College Auditors, or the Auditorat, which possesses
investigative authority and is headed by an Auditor-General; (4)
and the Competition Board, or Directional Committee, which consists
of the President, the Auditor-General, the
