The reform of the Belgian Criminal Code - General overview
Plan your training
- 30-09-2025
- 04-11-2025
| Members | €330 |
| Non-members | €360 |
| BZB | €330 |
| CPD Hours | General |
|---|---|
| Bank | 3h |
| Insurances | 3h |
| Consumer loans | 3h |
| Mortgages | 3h |
| Compliance | 3h |
- Accessible, clear, and directly applicable
- No travel time, but direct contact
- Deepen your knowledge and obtain recognized continuing professional development hours
An education with impact
The Belgian Criminal Code has recently undergone a substantial reform, representing a crucial evolution in Belgium’s criminal legislation. This reform modernizes the framework, clarifies classifications, and introduces new sanction levels, aiming to align the law with contemporary social standards and values. This training provides a broad overview of the reformed Criminal Code, highlighting the main structural and procedural changes that will influence how criminal justice is administered. This general understanding will serve as a foundation for a subsequent session that will focus specifically on the implications for moral persons, such as companies and institutions.
The objectives of this training are to:
- grasp the foundational principles;
- understand the major shifts introduced in the new Belgian Criminal Code;
- understand the framework's restructuring, setting the stage for a deeper dive into specific impacts on moral persons in the next session.
This training is for
The training course can be followed by various target groups:
- management
- compliance
- legal
- ...
Step by step through the training process
CONTENT
- A brief history
- Introduction
- Why is it relevant?
- General Provisions
- Objectives of the reform
- The Offense
- Concept
- Constitutive elements of the Offense
- Objectives
- Aggravating circumstances, element and factor
- The attempt
- Liability and Participation
- Penalty
- Objectives of the penalty
- Levels
- Key takeaways
- Q&A
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Duration: ½ day of training (3 class hours)
- Hours: 09:00 to 12:30
- Location: This training will be given online
- Language: This training will be given in English
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Rates and benefits
| Members | €330 |
| Non-members | €360 |
| BZB | €330 |
* Are you entitled to compensation or subsidies?
* Price: service provided as part of continuing vocational training, VAT exempt
Learn from experienced experts
Our guidance throughout the learning process
You follow a ‘Live webinar’ digitally in a group. It is ‘learning-apart-together’. At an agreed time, the teacher and participants log in to a video conference tool, each from his or her own location and with his or her own computer. Via this tool’s camera, microphone and chat function, there is an opportunity for interaction and feedback, both from the participants to the teacher and vice versa. The teaching material consists as a basis of a presentation via the MyFA learning platform, supplemented with various other items (such as digital syllabus, presentation, audiovisual fragments, etc.).
Training material: PowerPoint presentation (slides).
Plan your training
- 30-09-2025
- 04-11-2025
| Members | €330 |
| Non-members | €360 |
| BZB | €330 |
| CPD Hours | General |
|---|---|
| Bank | 3h |
| Insurances | 3h |
| Consumer loans | 3h |
| Mortgages | 3h |
| Compliance | 3h |
- Accessible, clear, and directly applicable
- No travel time, but direct contact
- Deepen your knowledge and obtain recognized continuing professional development hours