The Ministerial Decree of 13 September 2019 clarifies the tasks of the 'Centralized Office of Customs and Excise' and its Regional sub-offices. The decree mi...

Worldwide, the installation of wind turbines and the necessary equipment thereto at sea is increasing enormously. This evolution is also the case within the ...

Today, the 1st of August 2019, the new Belgian Maritime Code, as accepted by the Commission and the Parliament on the 4th of April 2019, is published within ...

On 6 June 2019 the Belgian Constitutional Court had to decide on the conformity of the Belgian Labor Act with the Belgian Constitution. The Court asked the E...

From 1 May 2019, the articles of association of companies, from their creation until the very last update of the articles of association, will be collected i...

According to the bill of 25th of April 2019 Article 782 bis judicial code will be supplemented by the following four paragraphs: "The decision is recorded in...

On the 4th of April, the Belgian and the Dutch Federation of Maritime Law and Transport Law join forces again, to organise the Belgian – Dutch Colloquium. Th...

The Commission decided today to send a letter of formal notice to Belgium for incompatibility of the national requirement regarding chartering and pricing in...

The International Law Office (ILO) reports that the Chinese Hangzhou Internet Court ruled for the first time, in a ruling of 28 June 2018, as confirmed by th...

The management of the Port of Antwerp is the responsibility of the government body 'Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf'. In order to allow companies to exploit their ...

Yesterday, 1 November 2018, the Act of 15 April 2018 came into force, which thoroughly overhauled company law, with the result that the 'Court of Commerce' w...

As per articles 51 to 58 of the act of 25 December 2016 on improving the recovery of customs and excise debts (in force since 1 January 2017) customs officia...

- Transport law. The intermediaries. - R&P No 96 - (610 pp.) - Editor: Wolters Kluwer Belgium 2018 - ISBN 978-90-46-59217-5 - In his new book, Kegels & Co Pa...

- Court of Justice - C-379/17 – 4th of October 2018 - In the ‘Società Immobiliare Al Bosco Srl’ judgment of the 4th of October 2018 the Court of Justice furt...

Partners Dirk Noels and André Kegels attended the 2018 IBA Annual Conference in Rome. The International Bar Association, established in 1947, is the world's ...

Following our earlier news release on 24 August 2018, concerning the entry into force of the Law on the UBO register, the FPS Finance launched an update yest...

Since the law of 19 October 2015 and the Royal Decree of 16 June 2016, it has been possible in Belgium, without intervention of the court, to recover undispu...

-I- With the 'Law on the protection of trade secrets', Belgium provides for the transposition of the European Directive 2016/943 of the European Parliament a...

With the Royal Decree of the 30th of July 2018, which will entry into force on the 31st of October 2018, Belgium transposed the fourth and fifth European ant...