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Stibbe's IP team recapped last year's patent case law in Belgium for the IPKat Blog. IPKat regularly publishes on European patent law and is one of the most popular blogs dedicated to IP law. 

The ICLG to Environment & Climate Change Law 2022 covers common issues in environment and climate change laws and regulations - including environmental policy and its enforcement, environmental permits, waste, liabilities, etc. - in 18 jurisdictions.

The Belgian Data Protection Authority published an interesting decision of its Litigation chamber. The content of the decision is not completely new, but it provides (or recalls) some relevant elements for personal data practitioners.

A Belgian enterprise Court decided that the Belgian Billiard Association is an undertaking for competition law purposes to the extent that it organises billiard tournaments.

By decision of 7 January 2022, the Belgian Competition Authority approved the merger between the Port of Antwerp and the Port of Zeebrugge. This merger deals with two important ports in Europe, in particular in the Hamburg – Le Havre range.

The Belgian DPA fined Groupe Rossel for several breaches of the GDPR on three of its websites.

AFME and IMN organise their 26th annual meeting from 14 until 16 June 2022 in Barcelona.

The Belgian DPA fined Roularta Media Group for several breaches of the GDPR on three of its websites.

The Belgian Parliament published a proposal to amend art. 29 of the Belgian Constitution. If adopted, art. 29 should read as follows: “The confidentiality of private communications is inviolable, except in the cases and conditions established by law”.

The CJEU decision in the National Orchestra of Belgium decision shakes up employer copyright in the Netherlands. With new consent and compensation requirements, are your employment contracts still airtight? Discover the implications of the decision here.

On 20 February 2025, the Belgian Supreme Court confirmed that under Belgian law an abuse of economic dependence may be found even in a situation where there is no contractual relationship between the companies involved.

The Digital Services Act is now fully applicable in the European Union, regulating online intermediaries and platforms to protect consumers and businesses in online services.

A recent decision by the litigation chamber of the Belgian DPA can be put into perspective with the decision of the Supreme Court of 7 October 2021 considering that the DPA has to deal with a complaint filed by a person whose data had not been processed.

A team of Stibbe lawyers from our Brussels, Luxembourg and Amsterdam offices have authored the BeNeLux sections of the Private M&A 2022 chapters published by Lexology Getting the Deal Through.

In this blog, we briefly present new developments regarding the implementation of the Covid Safe Ticket in Belgium.