Steptoe & Johnson LLP (LexBlog Belgium)

Since the adoption of the first sanctions package against Russia, the Council of the EU and the European Commission (“Commission”) have been working closely together to adopt increasingly severe sanctions to force President Putin back to the negotiating table in view of reaching a ceasefire. Coordination with allies has also been intense. Following our review...

As the Ukraine Crisis continues to deteriorate following the Russian decision to recognise the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent entities and officially deploying Russian troops, the EU has imposed its first set of sanctions. Also the US and the UK have imposed sanctions. The present blog post addresses the sanctions package that...

On May 16, 2019, Steptoe and Greenlane, with the support of ICC Belgium, are hosting a conference on developments and issues regarding customs and e-commerce. The event will take place in Liège, Belgium. For more information and to register for the event, please click here.

On June 12, Belgium’s Parliament published a draft law on the “protection of natural persons with regard to processing of personal data.” The draft – comprising 280 Articles – has three objectives: Legislate so-called “open clauses” of the General Data Protection Regulation, i. e. those clauses in the Regulation where EU Member States are free to...

Here’s the official press release.  The EU Blocking Regulation, which in its heyday was only sparingly (if ever) enforced with respect to Iran, is now coming to the fore as one of the European Union’s key  tools to help EU companies cope with President Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA.  The European Union also announced other...

On 10 January, the Belgian Gazette published the Law of 3 December 2017 “setting up the authority for data protection” (the Law). The Law is the first legal text in Belgium applying various provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under the GDPR, EEA Member States must provide for one or more independent...

In an opinion yesterday, Judge Furman upheld an arbitration award worth over $200 million in favor of a company affiliated with Israeli businessman Lev Leviev, and against his former partners in a series of diamond businesses.  The former business partners argued that the award should be set aside because one of the arbitrators was convicted of...