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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.
It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Luxembourg and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!
After more than 4 years of negotiation and roughly 4,000 amendments, the General Data Protection Regulation has finally been adopted yesterday by the …
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On 6 October 2015, the CJEU invalidated the U.S. Safe Harbor. The EU Commission then published a draft adequacy decision on 29 February, putting in p…
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On 15 December 2015, after three years of fierce negotiations, the new European (“EU”) data framework has finally been agreed. The text of the agreeme…
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Further to the invalidation of the Safe Harbor by the European Court of Justice on 6 October 2015, the legal uncertainty on personal data tr…
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Under the existing regulations, personal data can only be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area (EEA) if that count…
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The EU Commission and the US have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows, named "the EU-US Privacy Shield". This, however, does not me…
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On 2 February 2016, the European Commission and the United States reached an agreement on a new framework for transatlantic data flows. This EU-US Pri…
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After the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) declared the Safe Harbour Decision invalid in its judgement of 6 October 2016, the European Comm…
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Now that the holidays are behind us, with the exception of a belated New Year's drink here and there, it's business as usual and thus time to dig a li…
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Les sociétés luxembourgeoises sont en principe soumises à l’impôt sur le revenu des collectivités (ci-après « IRC ») de 21 % majoré par une contributi…
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While some people never stopped believing that the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") would one day become a reality, others had started to d…
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Bill No 6900 frx the budget for 2016, presented on 14 October 2015 by the Luxembourg Minis/er of Finance Pierre Gramegna. is about 10 be adopted. II r…
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The Luxembourg so-called 50bis Regime reduces the effective tax rate applicable to income from registered intellectual property and copyright protecte…
Read MoreOn 6 October 2015 the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter CJEU) rendered a major decision by reaffirming the importance of the protectio…
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On 6 October 2015, the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) rendered a landmark judgment regarding the Safe Harbour principles that represent a key e…
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The 2014 and 2015 sweeps performed by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network ("GPEN"), an informal network of 57 privacy enforcement authorities in 43…
Read MoreOn 6 October 2015 the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter CJEU) rendered a major decision by reaffirming the importance of the protectio…
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The Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) provides that European companies may transfer personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area i…
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The law on electronic archiving ("Law") was voted through by the Luxembourg parliament on 2 July 2015, offering market niches for new tech companies a…
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The Court of Justice, by its judgment on 6 October 2015 in case C-362/14, declared invalid the US Safe Harbour scheme which provides for personal data…
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