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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.
It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Luxembourg and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!
On 20 October 2014, an amended version of the much anticipated Luxembourg E-Archiving Law Proposal (see our newsflash on the initial Proposal of 13 Fe…
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ESMA Guidelines 2014/937 (the "Guidelines") amend the guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues dated 18 December 2012 and provide new rules on the co…
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On 9 October 2014, the Court of Justice dismissed the appeal lodged by Industries Chimiques du Fluor ("ICF") against the judgment of 18 June 2013, in …
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On 16 July 2014, Luxembourg adopted the law concerning the compulsory deposit and immobilization of shares and units in bearer form (hereafter the "La…
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On 7 October 2014, the General Court ("GC") handed down a judgment in the hotly debated area of access to the file. Damage claimants are frequently se…
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By law dated 28 July 2014 (published on 14 August 2014), the Luxembourg legislator substantially modified the rules governing the holding and transfer…
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The French and Luxembourg Finance Ministers signed, on 5 September 2014, a Protocol amending Article 3 (the "Protocol") of the France-Luxembourg doubl…
Read MoreThe EU's main data protection body, the Article 29 Working Party, recently published an Opinion on the application of European data protection rules t…
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10 October 2014. New tax treaty with Isle of Man is in force as of 05 August 2014 and will be applicable as of 01 January 2015 (Mémorial A 190, 10 Oct…
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A bill of law (reference number 6722) (the "Bill") was lodged with the Luxembourg Parliament on 16 October 2014, referred as the "package for the…
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The law dated 28 July 2014 on the immobilization of bearer shares and units and the obligation to keep a register of the registered and bearer shares …
Read MoreSince the EU Court of Justice made its ruling on the right to be forgotten in May 2014, the topic has been in the media almost incessantly. Most of th…
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The EU state aid rules are directed to Member States. In situations where public undertakings take measures which can be seen as conferring an advanta…
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On 19 May 2014, the Luxembourg Government issued a press release stating that Luxembourg and France have agreed to continue talks to negotiate and sig…
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On 4 September 2014, the Court of Justice handed down its judgment in the fasteners cartel (Case C-408/12 P). Although most of the appellants' claims …
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Formal, court-driven restructuring proceedings are available into Luxembourg law, but for practical reasons, these are rarely used in practice.
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In September 2012, the European Commission introduced an infringement procedure against Luxembourg as certain provisions of Luxembourg tax law concern…
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On 11 September 2014, the Court of Justice issued an important judgment in one of the numerous pending competition law cases around credit card scheme…
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Luxembourg is one of the leading domiciles worldwide for international investment vehicles. This leading position has arisen from the combination of t…
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On 16 June 2014, the Luxembourg direct tax authorities (Administration des contributions directes) released a circular letter L.G.-A n°60 (the "Circul…
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