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On 7 March 2022, the Act implementing the ECN+ Directive into Belgian law was published in the Belgian Official Gazette. The Act entered into force on 17 March 2022.

Although the right to equal pay of women and men has long been included in anti-discrimination law, there is still a difference in pay between women and men. That is why this subject is high on the agenda of the legislator.

Het kabinet heeft aangekondigd dat de NOW-subsidieregeling na maart 2022 niet wordt verlengd omdat de coronamaatregelen vrijwel allemaal zijn opgeheven.

De Europese Commissie heeft op 23 februari 2022 de Europese dataverordening (“Data Act”) voorgesteld, die het delen van data beoogt te bevorderen. Steeds meer gegevens worden door mensen en machines gegenereerd, bewaard en hergebruikt.

Hoewel het recht op gelijke beloning op grond van geslacht al langere tijd is verankerd in anti-discriminatiewetgeving, blijft er een verschil in beloning bestaan tussen vrouwen en mannen. Dit onderwerp staat daarom hoog op de agenda van de wetgever.

More antitrust clarity has arrived for companies involved in sustainability collaborations. The EC published draft revised rules on horizontal cooperation agreements and the ACM informally approved two green initiatives in the energy sector.

Only months after suspending an investigation into a possible wage-fixing cartel, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has warned employers, employers’ organisations, and trade associations to not engage in no-poach agreements. 

Pharma companies beware: discount schemes by former patent owners raise red flags at competition authorities.

Nothing is more fickle than information exchange: it changes colour under EU competition rules depending on the nature of the relationship between the exchanging companies.

De Zesde tijdelijke noodmaatregel overbrugging voor behoud van werkgelegenheid (NOW-6) is recent gepubliceerd. Werkgever kunnen sinds kort aanvragen indienen voor deze waarschijnlijk laatste tranche van de NOW.

On 23 February 2022, the European Commission published its draft Data Act, i.e. a proposal for a regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data. The text is part of the European strategy for data launched by the Commission in 2020.

Roos Elemans, Stijn de Jong and Kaj Privé contributed to Getting the Deal Through – Cartel Regulation 2022. In their publication, they discuss important issues that apply to cartel regulation in the Netherlands.

De uitspraak van de rechtbank Limburg van 15 november 2021 is de eerste NOW-uitspraak waarin een beroep op afwijking van de NOW gegrond is verklaard.

Intel’s second round at the General Court was significantly more successful than its first. In the first round, the General Court had failed to analyse whether the loyalty rebates at issue were capable of restricting competition. In the second round, afte

A Belgian enterprise Court decided that the Belgian Billiard Association is an undertaking for competition law purposes to the extent that it organises billiard tournaments.

By decision of 7 January 2022, the Belgian Competition Authority approved the merger between the Port of Antwerp and the Port of Zeebrugge. This merger deals with two important ports in Europe, in particular in the Hamburg – Le Havre range.

Eind 2021 deed de rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant een interessante uitspraak over een NOW-subsidievaststellingsbesluit.