We participated in the drafting and promotion of a proposal of a model law for the transposition of the European anti-SLAPP Directive. The proposal also integrates some of the provisions of the anti-SLAPP Recommendations of the European Commission and of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. The model law, including its explanatory statement, can hopefully inspire other European countries in their process of transposing the Directive 2024/1069 of 11 April 2024 on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded claims or abusive court proceedings. The model law is an initiative of the Belgian anti-SLAPP working group that has been monitoring developments related to SLAPPs in Europe and in Belgium since 2023. Short after its release, the text of the model law has been integrated in a law proposal submitted in the Belgian Federal Parliament (Chamber of Representatives, Commission of Justice) by the Green Party and Ecolo. The bill is now discussed in the Commission of Justice, before it will be referred to a plenary session in Parliament for a final voting. The EU anti-SLAPP Directive needs to be transposed into national law ultimately on 7 May 2026.
See for more information our blog post on the International Forum for Responsible Media Blog: https://inforrm.org/2025/02/12/belgium-a-model-for-the-transposition-of-the-eu-anti-slapp-directive-dirk-voorhoof/#more-58788
See also this article on Apache.