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Main text(s) Main text(s) French Code de droit économique (mis à jour le 19 juin 2019)     

Legislation Relates to (9 text(s)) Relates to (9 text(s))

• Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (EU230)
• Directive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure (EU218)
• Directive 2006/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (codified version) (EU071)
• Directive No. 2006/114/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 concerning misleading and comparative advertising (codified version) (EU132)
• Regulation (EC) No. 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws (EU130)
• Directive 98/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 1998 on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access. (EU155)
• Directive No. 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases (EU005)
• Directive No. 98/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 on the protection of consumers (EU044)
• Council Directive 89/552/EEC of 3 October 1989 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (EU128)

Supersedes (2 text(s)) Supersedes (2 text(s))

• Code of Economic Law (updated on September 10, 2018) (BE172)
• Code of Economic Law (updated on September 28, 2016) (BE171)

Is superseded by (3 text(s)) Is superseded by (3 text(s))

• Code of Economic Law  (BE216)
• Code of Economic Law (updated on April 21, 2022)  (BE214)
• Code of Economic Law (updated on March 7, 2022)  (BE213)