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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Does receiving an email informing me of a change in policy mean I automatically agree with it, unless I object?
Several years ago I bought a domain name. I have never really used it, and have been wanting to get rid of it for quite some time now, but every year the hosting service finds another trick to make me ...
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Is it legal to bill a company that made contact for a business proposal, then withdrew based on their policies that existed when they made contact?
Based on a Twitter thread from a mid sized YouTube personality:
I have been emailed MORE THAN 10 TIMES by a service I'd like to be sponsored with that I will not name
Every time they email me, I say ...
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Belgian inheritance laws valuation date
Is the value of a property at the time of deceased used for splitting inheritence or is it the value of the property when sold a later date?
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Alimony on gross salary
How does someone pay alimony on their gross salary if they are employed by someone else?
Suppose the partners agree on giving half of the gross monthly salary as alimony. If said person has X gross ...
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Legal penalties for fraudulent visa applications in Belgian law
I attempted to search the 1981 decree regulating immigration matters to Belgium to find the legal consequences of a fraudulent visa application, but I was not successful.
What are the legal penalties ...
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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.
I've been living in a ...
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