by StartItUp | Sep 26, 2019 | Corporate, Startups
30 September 2019, ultimate deadline to identify your ultimate beneficial owners in the UBO Register! With the law of 18 September 2017 all Belgian legal persons are obliged to identify their ultimate beneficial owners (“UBO’s”), collect and keep adequate, accurate...
by StartItUp | Mar 1, 2019 | Corporate, Others
The new Belgian Company and Association Code has finally been adopted! After a long parliamentary path and several amendments, the new Companies and Associations Code (hereinafter the “CAC”) has been approved by the Parliament on February, 28th 2019. The CAC contains...
by StartItUp | Feb 11, 2019 | IP/IT, Startups
(Some) personal data can flow freely from the EU to Japan on the Japan-EU adequacy decision On 23 January 2019 the European Commission adopted its implementing decision declaring that Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) provides adequate...
by StartItUp | Nov 27, 2018 | IP/IT
Our Belgian DPA published on 23 November 2018 its first assessment since the GDPR became applicable on 25 May 2018. What are the key figures? Since 25 May 2018: 1. 317 data breaches have been reported (compared to 13 in 2017); 2. 3599 requests for information have...
by StartItUp | Oct 31, 2018 | Corporate, Others
By Samantha Kabeya A new law has been adopted that imposes an obligation upon all legal entities to collect and keep adequate, accurate and current information on their “ultimate beneficial owners” (UBO) and to transmit such information to the “UBO Register”. This...
