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Bert Gevers

Bert is a partner of the Brussels office, he heads the Loyens & Loeff Indirect tax group in Brussels and co-chairs the firm’s International Trade Group. He advises clients on matters related to international and domestic exchange of goods and services. Matters such as export controls and sanctions, FTA's, customs valuation, origin, classification, excise duties and VAT are familiar parts of my practice. He is also co-heading the Food & Beverages team and he is a core member of the firm's Corporate Investigation Team.

Bert assists clients by drafting compliance programmes, giving trainings, as well as in performing internal scans and audits. He also represent clients before the Belgian and Dutch authorities and courts as well as before the European Commission, its advisory committees and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has ample experience in counselling clients involved in (criminal) investigations on suspected tax and trade law violations.

He is a member of the Brussels Bar since 2000, the current President of the Global Legal Customs Association, a global network of trade-lawyers, a correspondent for the international VAT Club, a member of the ICC section on Customs and trade facilitation and the sub-committee on indirect taxes and a member of the steering committee of the ABA International Law Section on sanctions and export controls.

He is the co-founder and scientific coordinator of the blog www.worldtradecontrols.com in cooperation with ICC Belgium, VBO/FEB and Bryan Cave LLP where he comments the recent developments in sanctions and export controls.

EU to control export of COVID-19 vaccines amid supply crisis

February 1, 2021
Blog/EU Export controls

On Friday 29 January 2021, the EU Commission revealed measures to control the export of COVID-19 vaccines.The regime provides for an obligation

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Belgium (finally) implements sanctions for violation of the EU Blocking Regulation

June 3, 2019
Belgium/Blog/EU Iran Sanctions/EU sanctions/Iran sanctions

Last week, the Belgian Act implementing the EU Blocking Regulation was published in the Belgian Official Gazette (see here).

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Meet OFAC in Brussels and discuss the disruption of export control & sanction regimes by new technologies on 11 June 2018

May 4, 2018
Belgium/Blog/EU Export controls/EU Trade Controls/Export Controls

The combination of innovation and digitization causes severe disruption to existing controls and regimes. New technologies have potential to disrupt if not

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Opposites attract: linking HS and ECN classification

February 21, 2017
Customs/Dual use items/Export Controls

On 16 January 2017, the European Commission published its latest update of the TARIC CN-DU Correlation Table which establishes links between the customs

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Modernization of the EU export control system: What’s next? (I)

October 28, 2016
Dual use items/EU Export controls/Human Rights

In this first post on a new series, we will discuss the most debated topic of the proposal thus far, which is

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Tipping the Scales: Balancing US Trade Controls’ Restrictions on Access with EU Labor and Privacy Rules (III)

October 4, 2016
EU Privacy rules/US Export controls

In last month’s post, we discussed the legitimacy of the collection and processing of employee data for the purpose of complying with

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EU Commission publishes its proposal for the recast of the Dual-Use Regulation

September 29, 2016
Dual use items/EU Export controls

The European Commission published its long debated proposal for the recast of the Dual-Use Regulation. By Olivier Coulon, Bert Gevers & Gerard

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Tipping the Scales: Balancing US Trade Controls’ Restrictions on Access with EU Labor and Privacy Rules (II)

September 20, 2016
EU Privacy rules/US Export controls

In last week’s post, we discussed the US trade controls’ restrictions on access to controlled technical information. As a consequence of these restrictions,

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