Belgium: Media, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment

The European Commission has imposed interim measures requiring Meta to restore third-party AI assistant access to WhatsApp's Business API, marking a significant enforcement action under Article 102 TFEU. This decision addresses Meta's alleged abuse of dominant position by excluding competing AI assistants while maintaining access only for its own Meta AI. The case raises critical questions about competition enforcement in emerging digital markets and whether early foreclosure effects can irreversibly streng

The European Union's revised Cybersecurity Act advances through legislative procedures while facing significant Member State concerns about EU competence limits in cybersecurity matters. The proposed framework would empower the European Commission to exclude high-risk suppliers from the EU market, but questions arise about whether the EU has authority to act in areas traditionally reserved for national security.

The European Parliament and Council have formally adopted amendments to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act as part of the Digital Omnibus package, introducing extended compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems, a targeted prohibition on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery, and measures to reduce regulatory duplication for businesses operating in the EU.

The proposed CADA, which was published on June 3, 2026, and is part of the EU's Tech Sovereignty Package, aims to establish the most comprehensive framework yet for regulating cloud services in Europe.

The European Commission has effectively rejected the established telecoms network operators' calls for their networks to be "subsidized" by edge providers.

The EU's sweeping Data Act is now in force. In this part of our series highlighting the Data Act's key issues, our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team highlights new obligations...

In a series of 3 rulings handed down on 20 May 2026, the Belgian Council of State (highest administrative court) confirms what most legal practitioners have been saying for a long time...

In our ninth alert in this EU Pharma Package Series, we discussed the proposals of the Commission, Council, and Parliament with respect to advertising of medicinal products.

The access conditionality under Article 56a has shifted from an incentive (“carrot”) to a penalty (“stick”) — Member States can request marketing authorization holders (MAH) to launch and supply products...

The EU's sweeping Data Act is now in force. In this part of our series highlighting the Data Act's key issues, our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team highlights new obligations...

On 15 April 2019, the Council of the European Union approved a Directive on the exercise of copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions by broadcasting organisations and retransmissions of television ...

The Competition College of the BCA decided that VRT had not demonstrated that the conditions to impose interim measures were met.