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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.

Angelo Goethals' doctoral thesis on The Legal Framework for (Inter)connecting the Belgian Offshore Wind Farms examines legal challenges and frameworks governing Belgium's offshore wind farm transmissions and interconnections. Through the PhairywinD project, funded by the Energy Transition Fund, the study explores grid development, market issues, and licensing processes, addressing concepts like offshore bidding zones, energy islands, hybrid interconnectors, and the interplay between European and international law. Defended in 2025 at Ghent University, the research provides valuable insights for the future of offshore wind energy in the North Sea and beyond.

European and international tax legislation takes centre stage in business life. The choice of company’s place of business, the transfer of a benefit from one State to another, the assistance given by a mother company to a subsidiary company situated in a different country, the choice to become non-resident or not to be tax resident in a given State, are only but a few topics covered by the Journal.

The magazine features an interview with a leading expert on the subject and the country. It offers an approach to both general and technical business law and practice, taking into account the concerns of business.

This book contains a review of forty “landmark” decisions issued by the European Court in Intellectual Property law between 2019 and 2024. As each decision originates from a dispute before a Member State court, the European Court’s rulings have, as far as possible, been summarised and analysed by authors who are familiar with the relevant national jurisdiction.

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.

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.

This book gives an overall picture of the principles of Belgian industrial relations law, such as trade union freedom, the instruments for social dialogue, collective bargaining agreements and collective action.

The book shows how difficult constitutional theory about effective judicial protection in EU law is to implement.

In the wake of the Convention on the Future of Europe, and against the backdrop of the many challenges facing the EU (security, economic, migration, health, climate, digital, etc.), this book aims to take stock of the scope and content of European citizenship and its capacity to embody the values of the Union.

L'ouvrage offre une perspective inédite de la coopération administrative dans l’espace administratif européen, abordant la question de ses acteurs, ses instruments et ses enjeux.

This volume is divided into the following parts: ‘Internal Energy Market and Climate Change: Judicial and Legislative Developments’, ‘Energy Suppliers and the Energy Supply Chain’, ‘Energy Relations between the EU and Third Countries’ and ‘Energy Systems and System Security’.

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.

Discover essential insights into the international legal framework for protecting civilians in peace operations with 'Forcible Protection of Civilians.' This analysis explores legal bases, UN mandates, and the interplay between mandates and human rights/international humanitarian law. Ideal for scholars and practitioners, this resource tackles complex legal nuances surrounding the use of force to ensure civilian safety in peace operations.

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.   

This book contains relevant contributions by reputed specialists in the area of EU law. / Cet ouvrage contient des contributions pertinentes rédigées par des spécialistes réputés dans le domaine de la législation européenne.

This volume discusses the position of third parties in relation to contracts in a comparative context, focusing on third-party clauses in contracts, transfer of contractual rights after transfer of property and assignment, principal–agent relations in concluding and performing contracts, and creditor protection (actio Pauliana).

In this book, the CSRD directive is explained (article by article) by several of its negotiators. This text is the first in the world to oblige companies - inside and outside the EU - to disclose information on their sustainability.

This book is the outcome of the international conference ‘Property law reform, sustainability and the commons’, which was hosted by the Institute for Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of KU Leuven in March 2023. The occasion of this conference was the holistic and innovative Belgian property law reform, which is part of the larger establishment of a brand new Belgian Civil Code. The goal of the conference, and hence of the book, was to engage with (both junior and more senior) property law experts from different legal systems to critically assess this Belgian property law reform from an international perspective by comparing it to other, recent and not so recent, property law reforms.

The EU Banking Union as outstanding regulatory regime in the 2010s influences private parties’ contract law –with claims against authorities, on markets with two new mega-trends. Firstly, the common good imposes itself much more against private gains. Secondly, private parties are more involved in responsibilities for the system and with claims based on it.