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30 September 2019, ultimate deadline to identify your ultimate beneficial owners in the UBO Register!
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...
The new Belgian Company and Association Code has finally been adopted!
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...
(Some) personal data can flow freely from the EU to Japan on the Japan-EU adequacy decision
(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...
GDPR – 6 months after : A first assessment by our Belgian DPA
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...
New obligations for companies (including start-ups!) to reveal their « beneficial owners »
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...
Droits d’auteur : quelle limite fiscale ?
Dans son arrêt du 10 novembre 2017 (F.14.0076.F), la Cour de Cassation a estimé qu’il ne découlait pas de l’article 37 du CIR 92 que les revenus de droits d’auteur recueillis par un contribuable devaient automatiquement être qualifiés de revenus professionnels du seul...
Are you « GDPR-compliant » ?
By Sari & Chloé By 25 May of this year, you are supposed to be “GDPR-compliant”. What does that mean exactly? The GDPR is the “General Data Protection Regulation” (n°2016/679), a piece of European legislation adopted in April 2016 and which becomes applicable on...
Trade Secrets
By Valentin de le Court Trade Secrets are the currency of the knowledge economy and provide a competitive advantage to innovative businesses, irrespective of their size and sector of activity. Having a robust and proactive trade secret management strategy in place,...
First aid to GDPR
The GDPR compliance deadline is approaching quickly! ICAB is organising a seminar on GDPR where Sari Depreeuw is presenting an overview of the legal “to do’s”. More information and registration here:...
BIE Seminar « Protect your intellectual property in China »
On February 7th, Valentin de le Court will be animating a seminar organized by Brussels Invest & Exports (BIE) in his quality of China IPR SME Helpdesk expert. His intervention, named “Intellectual Property Rights in China: How to protect your competitive...