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A number of important Belgian and EU legislative changes are likely to have an impact in 2024. On the one hand, there are new laws that have been adopted and will start to bite, and, on the other, there are proposals that are expected to firm up into law.

The proposed cooperation agreement (“the proposal”), which still has to be approved by the various Belgian parliaments, creates a mechanism to coordinate the exercise of the competences of the federal State and the federated entities in the area of FDI screening. It defines uniform notification thresholds and sets up the ISC as a one-stop-shop for all notifications of investments exceeding those thresholds.

On June 29, 2021, our annual EU Competition Law Conference took place (virtually this year), co-hosted by Crowell & Moring and King’s College London. During a panel discussion followed by a fireside chat, the speakers discussed how proposed and existing reforms in competition law across the globe are being or can be practically implemented. A video recording of the panel discussion and fireside chat is available here.