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Lucas Michel

Lucas is an associate in the Life Sciences practice.

He advises clients across a wide range of regulatory, compliance and procedural issues in the food, pharma, and medical devices sectors, with a focus on EU and Belgian regulatory advice.

Lucas also assists clients on public procurement matters, ESG queries, and represents clients in Belgian and EU courts.

The European Union has adopted various new rules for emergency situations relating to public health.  These new measures build on the experience gained from the COVID-19 pandemic and give new powers to the European Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States. 

The new rules create a complex public health

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The European Parliament and Council are currently negotiating the wording of a new Regulation establishing a Single Market emergency instrument (“SMEI”).  This new measure builds on the experience gained from the COVID-19 crisis and gives new powers to the Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States.  This blog briefly

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