On 11 June 2013 the European Commission adopted a package of instruments to facilitate damages claims by victims of antitrust damages. The main element of the package is a proposal for a directive on antitrust damages. The aim of this article is to give an overview of the content of the proposed...

On 2 June 2016, the Commission published a Communication containing “A European agenda for the collaborative economy”. The Communication intends to provide non-binding legal guidance and policy orientation on the sustainable development of the collaborative economy. It contains a number of...

The Antitrust Damages Directive was transposed in Belgian law by Act of 6 June 2017 inserting a Title 3 “The action for damages for infringements of competition law” in Book XVII of the Code of economic law, inserting definitions specific to Book XVII, Title 3 in Book I and modifying several...

After a long preparatory process, a Directive harmonizing certain national rules on private enforcement of competition law has been adopted by the European Parliament. In this contribution it is investigated whether harmonization of these rules was desirable and whether the main objectives of...

Dit artikel biedt een analyse van de wet Consumentenkoop één jaar na de invoering. Het artikel is onderverdeeld in zes hoofdstukken: toepassingsgbied, wettelijke garantie, commerciële garantie, dwingend karakter, overgangsrecht en één jaar toepassing.This article provides an analysis of the...

In Cement, the Court of Justice decided that the automatic voidness provided for by Article 101(2) TFEU applies only to those contractual provisions which are incompatible with Article 101(1) TFEU. The remainder of the agreement and as well as any orders and deliveries made on the basis of the...

The contribution analyses the impact of EU law on Belgian consumer law terminology. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the implementation of EU directives in the field of consumer law distorted the Belgian legal terminology. In particular, consumer law terminology often differs from civil...

This paper presents the results of research conducted by the European Network on Soft Law Research (SoLaR) in the field of financial regulation. An empirical study was conducted to determine how the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) guidelines and recommendations are complied...