The Brazil Belgium social security agreement signed in Brussels on October 4, 2009 entered into force on February 12, date of publication of presidential Decree No. 8,405/2015 in the official gazette. The agreement's provisions generally apply from that date.

The agreement establishes a legal framework to prevent double social security taxation, to avoid discriminatory treatment of their citizens, to exchange of personal information for social security purposes, calculations of benefits, among others.

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