Questions tagged [belgium]
Questions concerning the laws, criminal justice system, civil court procedures and related topics specific to the European country of Belgium.
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Can a Belgian mayor 'deport' arbitrary people from their municipality?
This article De Morgen raised some concerns for me. The link is in Dutch; the following are the sections relevant for my question, in English courtesy of Google translate:
In response, Minister of ...
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Is there a general duty to avoid creating unsafe situations when driving (Belgium)?
As I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), in aviation and in maritime traffic, there is an overriding obligation to operate safely and avoid accidents/damage. E.g.:
Alice and Bob are ...
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Can someone face legal consequences for infecting someone else with COVID due to not following COVID regulations?
Jurisdiction is Belgium.
Suppose a college student goes to an illegal student party and catches COVID there. He doesn't get caught by the police, he has no symptoms and he then doesn't self-isolate ...
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Can I refuse to send an email to untrusted domain
If I have to discuss financial, legal or medical subjects (or anything requiring privacy, or anything really) via email, can I refuse to do so if I don't trust the domain of the email of the other ...
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I'm a digital painter, will the art I make be 50% owned by my spouse after marriage?
If I make art like digital paintings, will my spouse own the original files? What about copies of the originals being sold? Is it possible that whatever I do with my creativity can be owned by my ...
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What an employer can legally ask to monitor about user activity
I work for a Belgian company as systems engineer, and I'm asked by the HR department to give them logs of a specific user's activity. This is about a concern they have when it comes to this user's ...
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I bought an apartment on plan and it doesn't seems to respect the acoustic standards. What can I do?
I bought in 2015 an apartment on plan (Belgium).
In the specifications it was mentioned that the belgian acoustic standard of 2008 "NBN S 01-400-1" would be respected.
I received the keys in November ...
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How can I object to a traffic fine subsequently when I didn't know the formalities?
On a recent visit to Belgium, I was fined for an alleged traffic offence as a pedestrian. In brief, I didn't notice an order by hand signal, because it was given outside my field of view. I doubt that ...
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How can the Belgium law allowing Belgium-funded research to be made open access be retroactive?
Belgium recently passed a law allowing researchers to make any of their article open access if the majority of the research funding came from Belgian public funding. The law is retroactive.
How can ...
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Do employees have personal liability when working for a company that violates the GDPR?
I work for a company that doesn't take privacy laws very seriously. As far as I can tell, they're woefully unprepared for GDPR and don't seem to care very much.
My tasks mainly consist of software ...
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Is it possible to be a Belgian civilian without a first name?
I work for a company in the Netherlands and someone who wants to fill in our job application form tells us he cannot do so because according to him, he does not have a first name. This makes things ...
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Is it legal to use digital copy if physical copy is broken/lost
I make digital copies of CD/DVD/Vinyls I buy and use those copies myself (on my phone/tablet/laptop).
I am free to use those copies because I purchased the physical version.
If I lose or break the ...
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Website harrassing for payment for a trip I did not book.
For the past few day I am receiving emails in my gmail account from a travel company based in Belgium, SEE-EU asking for a payment of around 1000 euros for a trip to Switzerland. Initially I did not ...
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Are there legal ways to get out of jury duty?
I have a mental disability called high-functioning autism. The biggest relevant effect is an increased social ineptitude, to the point that even thinking about the possibility of having to do jury ...
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Who is legally responsible for malware delivered through an ad on a website, the website or the ad network?
Forbes recently started to block people who use an adblocker from accessing their website. The irony is that only a couple of days later, the ad network they use started spreading malware, ransomware ...
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Leaving a rental house, and would like to know if I am losing any privileges upon moving out
I would like to start with saying that nothing has been said on the part of my landlord yet.
I am not in any kind of urgency with the issue, I am simply trying to get informed.
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