In a judgment of 11 December 2025, the Constitutional Court dismissed most of the criticisms raised by companies active in the gambling sector against the law of 18 December 2024, which introduced four additional measures aimed at protecting players in games of chance (including betting).
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- On 11 July 2025, the law adopted on 15 May 2025 containing Title I "Personal Securities" of Book 9 of the Civil Code was published in the Belgian Official Gazette.
- A law dated 5 November 2023 amends article X.49 of the Code of Economic Law, which set the limitation period at one year for all actions relating to a contract of carriage of passengers. This period will now be two years.
- When a harmful act is caused by the joint fault of two people, the courts have the option of sentencing them both jointly and severally to compensate the victim.
- 1. From 1 January 2023, the new contract law will come into force.
- Background: from the "special" administrative tax regime to the integration of the regime in the Law
- Context and principle
- In a judgment of 21 December 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled on the question of the potential compensation of a passenger whose flight schedule had been modified only a few days before departure.
- In this issue, Athena Law & Strategy summarises from UK and EU perspective the impacts on the mobility of people after the transitional period foreseen in the withdrawal agreement signed on 24 January 2020 by the British government and EU.
- As from September 2020, Marc Mostin integrated Athena Law & Strategy, as counsel.