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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!
Today the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a reform of the legal publication regime in respect of commercial companies. The reform will apply as from 1 J…
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The draft law (Projet de Loi) no 5730 regarding notably a modernisation of the Law of 10 August 1915 on commercial companies (as amended) (the “Compan…
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While accusing his receptionist (hereinafter the “Employee”) of using the company’s internet to play indie games during working time, the employer all…
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The draft law n° 6968 on certain rules governing actions for damages for infringements of competition law (hereinafter the “Draft Law”) amends the law…
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With the entry into force of the law of December 18th 2015 on the resolution, reorganisation and winding-up measures of credit institutions and certai…
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Depuis 2013, les particuliers belges sont tenus de déclarer la détention de « constructions juridiques », telles que des sociétés établies dans des pa…
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The Luxembourg VAT Authorities recently confirmed to the Luxembourg Association of Company Directors that independent director’s fees are subject to V…
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The Transparency Law*, which is the implementing act for disclosure and dissemination of regulated information by issuers whose securities are admitte…
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The Luxembourg Parliament (Chambre des Députés) adopted (on April 21 2016) bill of law no. 6845 implementing Directive 2014/91/EU of 23 July 2014…
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La problématique de la protection de la vie privée des salariés sur leur lieu de travail a déjà été abordé de nombreuses fois au Luxembourg, notamment…
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Also this week, the article 29 Working Party rendered a negative opinion on the EU-US Privacy Shield (see our previous newsletter for more d…
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Considering the increase in terrorist attacks, the legislator has decided to strengthen Luxembourg’s criminal procedure by introducing draft law N° 69…
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La Chambre des Députés a voté cet après-midi le projet de loi n.° 6588 portant organisation des services de taxis et modification du Code de la consom…
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After more than 4 years of negotiation and roughly 4,000 amendments, the General Data Protection Regulation has finally been adopted yesterday by the …
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On 10 March the highest Court of the European Union - the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter – the “ECJ”) delivered an important deci…
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On 6 October 2015, the CJEU invalidated the U.S. Safe Harbor. The EU Commission then published a draft adequacy decision on 29 February, putting in p…
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On 6 April 2016 ESMA published a second discussion paper on UCITS share classes. The discussion paper builds on the feedback received in relation to E…
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Moving beyond the Panama Papers sensational roots, one should not be misled by the dramatic and exagerated information used by the media to capture it…
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At the end of last week, ESMA published its long overdue final guidelines on UCITS V remuneration. The key difference is on the application of pr…
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On November 11th 2015 the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”), consisting of the European Banking Authority (“EBA”), the …
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