Law note · Belgium

Code de Droit Economique Article XVII.37, 10 degrees/1, Collective Redress for GDPR Claims

cite Code de droit economique, Art. XVII.37, 10 degrees/1, as inserted by the Loi du 30 juillet 2018 portant dispositions diverses en matiere d'Economie (numac 2018031589), Art. 43 stage In effect since 2018-05-25 reviewed 2026-08-24

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 82 arms an individual data subject to claim damages directly.

Belgium separately added the GDPR to the Code of Economic Law's collective redress action, Book XVII, Title 2: Article 43(a) of the Act of 30 July 2018 on various economic provisions, read verbatim, inserted point 10 degrees/1 naming Regulation (EU) 2016/679 into Article XVII.37's list of instruments whose breach can found a collective redress action, and Article 104 of the same act gives that insertion retroactive effect from 25 May 2018.

This session could not read Article XVII.37's complete current list directly (the Code's own consolidated text truncates before Book XVII), so confidence is high on the GDPR's inclusion and low on the article's present overall shape.

What it asks of an app

Expect a qualified Belgian consumer entity to be able to bring a collective redress action under Code de droit economique Book XVII, Title 2 on behalf of a group of Belgian data subjects for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breach, in addition to any individual Article 82 claim.

When LexLint raises it

Declared activities: crawls_web, trains_models, deploys_chatbot, processes_biometrics, processes_voice

Primary source: Act of 30 July 2018 on various economic provisions, Arts. 43, 104 (direct read, verbatim)

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