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• The DKIM Problem: Why the European Commission Breach Threatens Inboxes Worldwide

  Editor’s Note: Brussels now faces the kind of cyber reckoning it has spent years warning others about. In this article, we examine the reported European Commission breach tied to ShinyHunters and why the incident matters well beyond the immediate headlines. From compromised cloud infrastructure and exposed DKIM signing keys to the downstream risks of phishing,...

• The Tournai first instance court in Hugues Falys v TOTAL. A convinced if not totally convincing jurisdictional finding in climate claims, and a lack of engagement with applicable law, with the court eventually staying its case until the Paris courts have ruled.

  If you do use the blog for research or database purposes, citation would be appreciated, to the blog as a whole and /or to specific blog posts. Many have suggested I should turn the blog into a paid for, subscription service however I have resisted doing so. Proper reference to how the blog is useful...

• New Book on EU Fundamental Rights in ECtHR Case-Law

  Victor David (KU Leuven) has published the book EU Fundamental Rights as a Special Source for the European Court of Human Rights. Doing the opposite of many studies in this field, it looks at the influence of EU fundamental rights law on the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. This is the abstract:...

• Belgium – Pay Transparency – Flemish Minister announces fines for companies “that pay men more than women”

  Last week, in the wake of International Women’s Day, the Flemish government approved a – very partial – implementation of the Pay Transparency Directive. The bulk of the transposition work is still to be done by the federal government and the social partners in the National Labour Council, and on these fronts, things are still...

• Commission opens official DSA investigation into SHEIN

   While the announced Digital Fairness Act proposal remains so far at the announcement stage, the last few months have brought to light the DSA’s potential – if yet to be tested – to contribute to consumer protection beyond content moderation practices. In this sense, it particularly interesting that this month the European Commission has announced...

• Karl Llewellyn Archive at the Perelman Centre in Brussels

   [We have the following announcement.  DRE.  H/t: DS] The Twining-Llewellyn Fund is a unique collection of several hundred documents and works collected by William Twining (1934-2025) over the course of his career. The collection is housed at the Perelman Centre in Brussels. A significant portion of these documents illuminate the life and work of Karl N....

• Belgian High Court Confirms Full Judicial Review of Supervisory Authority Decisions

  On 15 January 2026, the Belgian High Court delivered a judgment in proceedings initiated by the Belgian Supervisory Authority, in which it challenged the scope of judicial review exercised by the Market Court over its enforcement decisions. The authority was unsuccessful on both grounds of appeal. By way of background, the Supervisory Authority had adopted...

• Who Bears the Risk of AI Use in Mergers & Acquisitions?

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into mergers and acquisitions (M&A), supporting negotiations, determining the value of the target, drafting relevant contracts – and, most important, helping perform due diligence. Yet, its role in this context raises questions about liability, fiduciary duties, and the validity of corporate transactions. In a new paper, we offer...

• A legal analysis following the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act)

  The adoption of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the AI Act) reshapes the liability framework associated with artificial intelligence in the EU. Going forward, it will no longer be sufficient to invoke “best practices” or “ethical use”: it will be essential to demonstrate, through traceability and evidence, that the system has been designed, placed on the market,...

• Belgian High Court Confirms Full Judicial Review of Supervisory Authority Decisions

  On 15 January 2026, the Belgian High Court delivered a judgment in proceedings initiated by the Belgian Supervisory Authority, in which it challenged the scope of judicial review exercised by the Market Court over its enforcement decisions. The authority was unsuccessful on both grounds of appeal. By way of background, the Supervisory Authority had adopted...

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• Belgian Court Orders Google To Stop Posting Articles

  A Belgian court has told Google to stop posting content from Belgian newspapers on its websites without permission. Copiepresse, which handles copyright for French language newspapers in France and Belgium, had sued Google over the issue. The court informed the company that it would have to pay...

• International Consumer Product Safety Conference – Brussels, Belgium

  An online page presents information about this upcoming global conference on consumer products. The world continues to get smaller with increases in cross-border communication. The page provides the following overview: “International Consumer Product Safety Conference – Brussels, Belgium June 17-18,...

• Facebook Wins Appeal Over Storing Non-User Data in Belgian Court

  The Belgian data protection authority has lost its legal battle with Facebook over whether the social network could track the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages. Belgium’s data protection regulator took Facebook to court a year ago, accusing it of breaking...

• Belgium Publishes Law Adapting the Belgian Legal Framework to the GDPR

  On September 5, 2018, the Law of 30 July 2018 on the Protection of Natural Persons with regard to the Processing of Personal Data was published in the Belgian Official Gazette....

• The Week Ahead in the European Parliament – November 8, 2019

  Summary Next week will be a mini-plenary week in the European Parliament.  Members of the European Parliament (“MEPs”) gather in Brussels for Committee meetings and Plenary Sessions. On Wednesday, MEPs will discuss the state of play and rising tensions between Eastern Mediterranean Member States...

• Is a functional shape precluded from copyright protection?

  In a recent case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) considered whether a functional shape is precluded from copyright protection. The case was referred from the Commercial Court of Liège (Belgium) (C-833/18). Background The original case before the Commercial Court of Liège...

• Three sentenced in Belgium as part of fipronil egg scandal

  Three people in Belgium have been sentenced for their roles in the 2017 fipronil affair that involved hundreds of poultry farms. Prison terms range from one year to 18 months suspended for endangering public health and damages were awarded to civil parties. Seven individuals and four firms faced...

• Ferrero hopes to reopen plant linked to Salmonella outbreak in June

  Ferrero’s confectionery plant in Belgium that has been linked to a large Salmonella outbreak could reopen next month. Belgian authorities stopped production at the facility in Arlon in early April. Meetings have been held between Ferrero officials, a worker’s union and the Federal Agency For the...

• What’s new in Belgium on the employment front? Part 1 – training plans

  As it turns out, lots. Too much for one blog, in fact, so welcome to a short miniseries on the new developments of most relevance to you as employer. In recent months, the Belgian legislature has clearly come out of its post pandemic slump and a number of new measures have been introduced, some of.....

• EU extends Turkish shellfish curbs; updates other rules

  The European Commission has extended restrictions on imports of bivalve mollusks from Turkey. The measures for bivalve mollusks, such as clams, oysters, and mussels, will now apply until the end of December 2026. The short shelf life of live and chilled bivalve mollusks effectively rules out...