Employment & Benefits Brussels Agenda of upcoming Client Events
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Belgium
International accounting standards convergence process: IAS/IFRS – US GAAPs
During the event, that will take place on 9th December 2015 at the seat of the Italian Stock Exchange (Milano), we will be focusing on the harmonization process between the two major accounting standard sets: IAS/IFRS and US GAAPs. The event, jointly organized by BP&A and the Univesity of Urbino, will focus on the progresses […]
Dr. Pierino PostacchiniChartered Accountant, Auditor, BP&A, Finance and Business consulting
Employment Newsletter October 2015
• 12/10/2015 In this edition we deal with the following topics: Meal vouchers: the end of the paper era Public holidays and temporary work: new rules New threshold amounts: busy summer Program-Act of 10 August 2015 : what’s new in social matters? Wijninckx contribution: postponement second phase Unemployment with extra company benefit: suitable availability for […]
Lieven PeetersPartner, ALTIUS
The new Market Abuse Regulation and the AIM Rules
On 3 July 2016, a new EU regulation relating to market abuse will come into force in the UK and all other EEA member states. It will supersede the existing Market Abuse Directive which is currently in force. The regulation will apply to financial instruments admitted to both regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities. Accordingly, […]
Geo-Blocking of Copyrighted Material Across the EU
The free movement of goods and people across the EU does not apply to the purchase of television programmes, films or music. Unsurprisingly, TV broadcasters and film distributors are opposed to removing geo-blocking techniques, which prevent their services from being used on a cross border basis. However, a resolution adopted by the European parliament on […]
Katherine EvansSenior Partner, Mirkwood Evans Vincent
EU vs UK Intellectual Property Rights – Unauthorized use of Photographs on Website
The case of Absolute Lofts South West London Limited v Artisan Home Improvements Limited and another (2015) EWHC 2608(IPEC) is an Intellectual Property Enterprise Court case, where the judge was asked to determine the damages for use of over twenty photographs on the website of a home improvement services company, in circumstances where the photographer’s […]
Katherine EvansSenior Partner, Mirkwood Evans Vincent
Focus on ELTIF – “European Long-Term Investment Fund”
Regulation 2015/760 of 29 April 2015 on European Long-Term Investment Funds was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 19 May 2015 (the “ELTIF Regulation”). The ELTIF Regulation will be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States from 9 December 2015. Therefore the EU Member States do not need […]
Lieven PeetersPartner, ALTIUS
Franchising and E-Commerce – the e-lephant in the room
For many premises-based, consumer facing brands (particularly those in the retail sector) which have used franchising as a tool to expand their business, the traditional approach has been to recruit experienced and well-capitalised local operators and grant them “pure-play” rights to open and operate branded physical premises to sell products and services in an allocated territory. The […]
Investing abroad – a few state aid considerations
Foreign companies investing in the EU would be well-advised to find out a bit more about state aid control before accepting the very attractive incentives they are offered by some countries. State aid control is still the poor brother of EU competition law, and often ignored even by the most sophisticated in-house legal departments. This […]
ECHA Board of Appeal ruling on substance evaluation process
ECHA Board of Appeal ruling on substance evaluation process The BoA rejects ECHA’s requirement for a particular study and sets a three-tier “necessity test” 1. Background On 23 September 2015 the European Chemicals Agency (“ECHA”) Board of Appeal (“BoA”) annulled an ECHA decision which required an additional study as part of the substance evaluation of […]
HBSV Advocaten joins IR Global as the exclusive Transport Law Member in Belgium
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Koen Ballet of HBSV Advocaten. Koen has joined IR as our exclusive Transport Law Member in Belgium. HBSV Advocaten combine rich and long experience since 1973 with a youthful exuberance and up-to-date views on the law. HBSV, with its strong team of specialist lawyers, since […]
Focus on ELTIF – “European Long-Term Investment Fund”
Regulation 2015/760 of 29 April 2015 on European Long-Term Investment Funds was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 19 May 2015 (the “ELTIF Regulation”). The ELTIF Regulation will be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States from 9 December 2016. Therefore the EU Member States do not […]