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Expansion of Belgium’s anti-discrimination legislation
Expansion of Belgium’s anti-discrimination. Legislation: Multiple discrimination and discrimination by association and assumption explicitly prohibited by law.
Clauses contractuelles - Capita Selecta
Ces dernières années, un certain nombre de nouvelles lois ont été adoptées et ont une incidence sur la rédaction des contrats commerciaux, comme l'entrée en vigueur, le 1er janvier 2023, du livre 5 du nouveau Code civil (CC), ainsi que le Deal pour l’emploi et d’autres lois en matière de droit du travail.
Additional voluntary overtime system possible until 2025
The social partners have agreed that from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2025, employers and employees in all sectors will again be able to make use of additional voluntary overtime, or "relance hours".
Dear online intermediaries: Forewarned is forearmed. New ex parte summary proceedings against large-scale online copyright infringement
Copyrights are very prone to large-scale infringements in the digital world. The European Commission addressed rightsholders’ concerns in this regard through Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive), which was implemented in Belgium by the act of 19 June 2022 (the Act).
Dear online intermediaries: Forewarned is forearmed. New ex parte summary proceedings against large-scale online copyright infringement (2)
Copyrights are very prone to large-scale infringements in the digital world. The European Commission addressed rightsholders’ concerns in this regard through Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive), which was implemented in Belgium by the act of 19 June 2022 (the Act).
La garantie légale dans les ventes aux consommateurs
Depuis juin 2022, le nouveau régime de garantie des consommateurs est entré en vigueur, ce qui signifie que les consommateurs sont désormais mieux protégés contre les produits et services vendus non conformes en Europe.
Data subject’s access right: cjeu clarifies the concepts of “copy” and “information”
Article 15(3) GDPR provides that, at the request of the data subject, the controller must provide a “copy” of the personal data that have been processed and, if the request is made electronically, provide the “information” in a commonly used electronic form.
L’art de négocier : cinq conseils pour les juristes d'entreprise
Un juriste d'entreprise doit avoir plus d'une corde à son arc et combiner ses connaissances juridiques avec d'autres compétences.
The rise of Legal Operations Managers
Based on our two decades of experience as a trusted legal recruitment partner, we've seen legal departments go through some major changes.
The Green Claims Directive proposal in a nutshell
On 22 March, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Directive on Green Claims (“Green Claims Proposal”). The key objective of the Green Claims Proposal is to combat “greenwashing” and to enable consumers to contribute in accelerating the green transition by making informed purchasing decisions based on credible environmental claims and labels.
One-off purchasing power premium for employees of companies with high profits
On 28 April 2023 a royal decree was published in the Belgian Official Gazette which offers companies that achieved (exceptionally) high profits in 2022 the possibility to grant a purchasing power premium to their employees.
Comment survivre et exceller en tant que juriste d’entreprise en ces temps difficiles ?
Nous vivons des moments difficiles. Ces dernières années, les crises semblent se succéder à un rythme effréné : la crise du covid, la guerre en Ukraine, la flambée des prix de l’énergie. Toutes ces crises ont un impact sur les entreprises.
The changing balance of power between legal departments and law firms
Corporate legal departments are facing challenges such as decreasing budgets, increasing workloads, and pressure to provide more cost-effective legal services. In fact, 92% of organisations say they are changing the way the legal function operates and taking steps to address the most pressing challenges.
La plus lourde amende GDPR jamais infligée
Le Règlement général sur la protection des données, plus connu sous le nom de «RGPD», est connu dans le monde entier, depuis son entrée en vigueur en 2018, pour son strict régime de sanctions. Il prévoit notamment des amendes pouvant atteindre 20 millions d'euros ou 4 % du chiffre d'affaires annuel mondial du responsable de la violation.
EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation - Additional obligations for companies in mergers, acquisitions and public tenders
The current instruments - in the form of the EU merger control and EU state aid rules - do not provide sufficient protection against the specific problems and unfair competition that non-EU subsidies bring. The new Foreign Subsidies Regulation ('FSR' or 'Regulation') entered into force on 12 January 2023. Under this Regulation, the European Commission ('Commission') has far-reaching powers to block mergers, acquisitions and joint-ventures ('mergers') and bids in public tenders and even retroactively dissolve certain mergers where foreign investment distorts competition in the EU internal market.
AI-powered chatbots: Mythical super creature or legal Trojan Horse
Ever since the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the world has been gasping at the astonishing accomplishments of this generative AI chatbot: a simple “prompt” in the form of a question (“which are the most important decisions of the CJEU in copyright?”) will receive a credible response within seconds (“The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued several important decisions in the field of copyright law.