Belgium: Constitutional & Administrative Law

The Constitutional Court has now annulled that regulation in its judgment of 18 September 2025 (no. 122/2025).

The EU's foreign direct investment (FDI) screening rules aim to enable the Union to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks to security or public order...

Belgium's Program Law of 18 July 2025 fundamentally reformed the tax increase regime under Article 444 ITC by introducing a rebuttable presumption of good faith for first-time infractions. While the reform eliminates automatic 10% tax increases for taxpayers who commit their first error in good faith, significant questions remain about the practical interpretation of "good faith" and the treatment of ex officio assessments.

On 30 November 2023, the Brussels Court of Appeal issued a landmark judgment, ruling that the Belgian federal state and the Flemish and Brussels regions acted unlawfully by failing to take sufficient climate mitigation action.

For the first time, the CJEU has been asked to clarify the temporal applicability of the right to "appropriate and proportionate remuneration" laid down in Article 18 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market ("DSM Directive").

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A number of EU-27 Member States have been accelerating their efforts to finalize national "emergency" Brexit legislative (NEBLs) measures in the event of a ‘No Deal' or any other form of Brexit ...

The European Parliament and European Council have finalised the text of a new Directive (AIFMD 2) which supplements the original Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) by creating new requirements in...