CEPANI, the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, has published new arbitration and mediation Rules, which entered into force on 1 January 2023.
The December 2022 issue of our Belgian Business Law newsletter reporting on the latest developments in a range of areas, including competition, data protection, intellectual property and labour law.
In December 2022, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached an agreement on the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) that will put a price on carbon embedded in some imported products
The November 2022 issue of our Belgian Business Law newsletter reporting on the latest developments in a range of areas, including competition, data protection, intellectual property and labour law.
The October 2022 issue of our Belgian Business Law newsletter reporting on the latest developments in a range of areas, including competition, data protection, intellectual property and labour law.
Van Bael & Bellis’ data protection team has compiled a list of questions that clients frequently ask, to clarify the concept itself and the benefits which a DPIA can bring to projects involving personal data.
The September 2022 issue of our Belgian Business Law newsletter reporting on the latest developments in a range of areas, including competition, data protection, intellectual property and labour law.
On 25 October 2022, the Belgian Official Journal published two Royal Decrees complementing and implementing the regulatory framework governing in vitro diagnostic medical devices as based on Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of 5 April 2017 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (the IVDR) and the Belgian Law of 15 June 2022 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (the Law of 15 June 2022).
Today, the Spanish competition authority (Comisión nacional de los mercados y la competencia - CNMC) imposed a fine of EUR 38,934,000 on Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) because that firm allegedly abused its dominant position in the market for contraceptive vaginal rings (see, attached press release in Spanish and English). MSD is the owner of patent rights in relation to the vaginal ring known under the brand name Nuvaring®.