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03/06/26
03/06/26
Supplementary Pension: A Strategic Issue for Self-Employed Lawyers

In Luxembourg, lawyers practising independently are subject to a statutory pension scheme whose benefits are, by nature, less protective than those applicable to salaried employees…

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02/06/26
02/06/26
Index adjusted on 1 June 2026

From 1 June 2026 the Luxembourg salary index is automatically raised from 968.04 to 992.24, triggering a mandatory 2.5% increase of gross salaries paid under employment contracts s…

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01/06/26
01/06/26
Dentons Luxembourg invests in its talent and strengthens its banking, finance and corporate law…

Dentons Luxembourg announces the promotion of Olivier Lesage to Partner and David Paiva to Managing Counsel, marking a new milestone in the international law firm’s development i…

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16/06/26
Restrictive and post-contractual clauses under Luxembourg La…

Restrictive and post-contractual clauses are common features of employment …

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10/06/26
Luxembourg Pillar Two FAQ updated: LTA provides further guid…

On 4 June 2026, the Luxembourg direct tax authorities ("LTA") updated their…

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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!

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23/07/20
Schrems II, the day after - What actions do you need to take with regard to your international data transfers?…

Yesterday (16 July 2020), the European Court of Justice issued its breaking judgement in the ‘Schrems II’ case. You can read more about the Court’s ru…

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21/07/20
Schrems II: What is (or should be) on your to-do list for international data transfers?

Today, on 16 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its Schrems II judgment invalidating the European Comm…

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20/07/20
Luxembourg law implementing a central register of beneficial owners of Luxembourg fiduciary arrangements publi…

On 13 July 2020, the law implementing a central register of beneficial owners of Luxembourg fiduciary arrangements (the “Law”) as required under Artic…

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17/07/20
EIOPA guidelines on outsourcing to cloud service providers

On 6 February 2020, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”) has published its final guidelines (the “EIOPA Guidelines”) o…

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17/07/20
Luxembourg adopts law on professional payment guarantees: enhanced contractual freedom and certainty

The legal framework for accessory guarantees (cautionnements) and autonomous guarantees (garanties autonomes) was a source of legal uncertainty given …

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16/07/20
Introduction of a Luxembourg register of fiducies and trusts

On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg parliament approved the bill of law n°7216B transposing Article 31 of EU Directive 2015/849 on the prevention of the us…

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16/07/20
Luxembourg Adopts Law on the Establishment of a Fiduciaries and Trusts Register

On 1 July 2020 the Luxembourg Parliament adopted the much anticipated Bill of Law n°7216B (the “Law”) that repeals the existing law on the information…

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15/07/20
Luxembourg law on professional payment guarantees published

Yesterday (13 July 2020), the law of 10 July 2020 regarding professional payment guarantees was published (the “Law”).

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15/07/20
New act on professional payment guarantees

The law of 10 July 2020 on professional payment guarantees has just been published and will enter into force on 17 July 2020. It provides for the crea…

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14/07/20
Introduction of a new creditor-friendly instrument in the Luxembourg toolbox: the professional guarantee of pa…

On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a new law relating to professional payment guarantees (the “Law”) or garantie professionnelle d…

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10/07/20
MiFID II: Third country (national) regime – a first list of "equivalent" jurisdictions and territorial scope c…

On 1st July 2020, the CSSF released its Circular 20/743, thereby partially amending Circular letter 19/716. On the same day, the CSSF also enacte…

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08/07/20
DAC 6 / CRS / FATCA: Luxembourg bill of law issued to postpone reporting obligations and deadlines

On 6 July 2020, the Luxembourg government issued bill of law N°7625 implementing into domestic law Council Directive (EU) 2020/876 of 24 June 202…

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07/07/20
COVID-19: Luxembourg extends DAC6, CRS and FATCA reporting deadlines

Yesterday, the draft law implementing the optional deadline extensions of EU Directive of 24 June 2020 (the “Directive”) amending the EU Directive on …

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06/07/20
Data protection impact assessments: new EDPS recommendations

On 6 July 2020, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published a report on the use of data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) within EU i…

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06/07/20
The BlackRock VAT case: an impossible combination of artificial intelligence and the VAT exemption?

On 2 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) ruled in the case of BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd (C-231/19) that a “s…

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06/07/20
EU Parliament adopts Taxonomy Regulation

In recent years the European Union has paid increasing attention to sustainability in its policy- making particularly in the financial sector

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06/07/20
CSSF publishes two important texts on the provision of investment services in Luxembourg by third country inve…

On 2 July 2020, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSSF”) published two important texts for third country firms provi…

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04/07/20
Clarifications of the rules governing the provision of investment services or performance of investment activi…

On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg supervisory authority (the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier - CSSF) issued the circular n°20/743 (the Ci…

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03/07/20
After the register of beneficial owners for companies, here comes the Luxembourg register for fiducies and tru…

On 1 July 2020, bill of law 7216B setting up a Luxembourg register of fiducies and trusts (the “RFT”), under the supervision of the Adm…

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03/07/20
Certain deadlines extended by financial sector laws during the crisis

On 7 May 2020, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a new law extending certain deadlines during the crisis as provided for in various financial sector l…

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