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With three issues per year, the R.E.D.C. is both a doctrinal tool and a source of information on the evolution of consumer law in the Member States.

This book compiles various papers based on the presentations by distinguished scholars, practitioners, stakeholders and enforcers presented during two international conferences jointly organised by KU Leuven’s CCM and the University of Ferrara, in cooperation with the European Law Institute’s Sustainability and Environment Law Special Interest Group and the Consumer Empowerment Project (CEP).

This book answers this question and provides a clear doctrinal legal analysis of public procurement as a strategic instrument to foster circular economy objectives. 

This book tackles a hot topic at the intersection of three major issues in Europe: consumer rights, the way we regulate flexibility of the electricity consumers and our push for renewable energy. 

This volume examines how power shapes and distorts contractual relationships, challenging the legal fiction that parties meet as equals and showing how various forms of power permeate every stage of contracting.

How should crypto-assets be regulated? Against the backdrop of the recent adoption by the European Union of the MiCA Regulation, it seems crucial to compare the regulatory choices made in the European Union and the United Arab Emirates.  

This book deals with the questions arising from domestic restrictions on the ability and authority of State parties to submit to international arbitration and the invocability of these restrictions in foreign investment disputes from the perspective of the International Rule of Law. 

Are banks allowed to speculate on the financial markets and do proprietary trading and other risky activities, thus endangering retail deposits?

This reference book brings together a number of contracts that are governed by Belgian law but drafted in English. Each model is preceded by a short introduction summarizing the most salient provisions of Belgian law relevant to that particular contract. Also, in most models, different options and alternative wording are included.

How can Europe build a coherent tax framework for innovation? In European R&D Tax Incentives, Georges Cavalier explores how national R&D tax systems — from France to Germany and beyond — can converge toward a shared legal concept of research.
Drawing on the work of the European Law Institute (ELI) and the EU Platform for Tax Good Governance, this groundbreaking study offers both a conceptual map and practical guidance for a more transparent, efficient, and integrated European R&D tax policy.

This book will examine whether the insights gained on due diligence to regulate transnational business conduct in various areas of international law can be transposed mutatis mutandis to the context of the customary duty of non-assistance, due to their significant similarities with the book’s central research issue.

A crucial question is whether EU data legislations geared toward the establishment of data markets can be squared with personal data protection. Based on her doctoral research, Charlotte Ducuing addresses this question with a novel and original approach based on commodification studies. A must-read to understand data legislation, its commodification dynamics and their impact on data protection law and to take a fresh perspective on the GDPR.

This book contains the papers of the XVI Conference on ‘Antitrust between EU law and national law’, held in Treviso, on 6 and 7 June 2024. / Questo volume contiene gli atti del XVI Convegno sul tema «Antitrust fra Diritto Nazionale e Diritto dell’Unione Europea», tenutosi a Treviso, il 6 e 7 giugno 2024.

This book first sets out a conceptual framework of three main types of product-as-a-service contracts (product-oriented, use-oriented, result-oriented PSS) based on real-life examples. Second, it identifies and analyses the relevant EU regulations as well as the national (BE, NL) contract laws applicable to these contracts. Third, it evaluates the current regulatory framework of product-as-a-service contracts in order to identify its strengths and weaknesses. Fourth, legal solutions are proposed to tackle the identified weaknesses and to promote balanced, truly sustainable product-as-a-service contracts.

This Journal analyses legislative, regulatory and case law developments in three closely related sectors: banking, financial markets and insurance.

This book examines how complex intermediaries, such as financial institutions, affect shareholder rights in publicly traded companies. These intermediaries pose challenges in the relationships between companies, shareholders, and ultimate investors. The book explores solutions, like Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), to safeguard investors' interests.

This book delves into the evolving landscape of sustainable finance, exploring banks' potential liability for environmental and social harm caused by borrowers. This legal analysis examines both Belgian law and EU prudential regulations, offering key lessons from climate-related litigation. Discover the critical link between regulatory developments and civil liability risks.

In banking and finance, transnationality permeates the day-to-day professional life and makes the dedicated lawyer an internationalist by necessity. There are good reasons for this: the intangible nature of services, the desire of operators even regulated to conquer foreign markets; sometimes because of the extraterritorial spread of local policies relating to the person of the operators or the products marketed. Although it does not always have a good reputation, private international law, with its promise of a widely understood conflict of law discipline, is making inroads into the legal practice of this specialised and globalised sector.

Definition of Insolvency: Proposals for Harmonisation in the European Union presents the results of a research project on the harmonisation of the term “insolvency” in European instruments (Regulations and Directives). It consists of a report on the "definition of insolvency", questionnaires on the national laws of the EU Member States (and the UK), and impact assessments on the implementation of the harmonisation proposal in the laws of the Member States.

To detect money laundering and terrorism financing, governments and financial institutions across the EU are increasingly seeking to collaborate by sharing information with one another. A pioneering work on this topic, the book explores the applicable legal framework and offers guidance to ensure effectiveness and guarantee respect for fundamental rights.