On 21 April 2022, the Chamber of Representatives finally voted and adopted the long-awaited book 5 of the new Civil Code "Commitments". The book will enter into force on the first day of the sixth mon...
By judgment of 17 March 2022, the Court of Cassation annulled a judgment of the Court of Appeal of Antwerp of 7 December 2020 in which the Court of Appeal had decided, in the event of late payment in ...
We are very proud to announce that Schoups has once again received nice rankings in various legal guides. In The Legal 500 we were ranked for 'Real estate and construction' in Tier 2, for 'Dispute res...
Contractors will soon only be able to send their invoices for public contracts and concessions electronically via 'e-invoicing' to the contracting authority. The commencement of this obligation depend...
In a remarkable judgment of 8 December 2021[1], the Council of State ruled that a tender that deviates from the applicable zoning regulations of the Spatial Implementation Plan (RUP) is not a priori s...
On 31 March 2022, Schoups will say goodbye to Sara Cockx, who is taking on a new challenge. Since 2013, Sara has passionately led and expanded the field of employment law within the firm. The firm and...
On 22 March 2022, the Justice Committee approved books 1 (General provisions) and 5 (Law of obligations) of the (new) Civil Code. In this way, another step has been taken towards the new contract law....
In a judgment of 1 December 2021 (T-546/20, Sopra Steria Benelux and Unisys Belgium v European Commission), the General Court considered whether, and if so to what extent, the European contracting aut...
Some time ago we reported on the interpretative Law of 29 October 2021[1], with which the legislator art. 124, § 1, d) of the Insurance Act in a retroactive manner (see here for more information). Thi...
Although the construction sector has a lot of disputes, mediation is not yet very often used. That is a missed opportunity. Mediation, both judicial and extrajudicial, is a good alternative to the cla...
Voor het eerste semester van het jaar 2022 blijft de interestvoet voor de betalingsachterstand bij handelstransacties op 8,0%. Voor interesten in het verleden (vóór 16 maart 2015) bestaat er nog een o...
With a previous news flash we already informed you about the abolition of the Royal Decree of January 29, 2007 on professional skills in construction companies (the so-called establishment legislation...