The article discusses several key elements of the Belgian reform of expert analysis procedure in civil law. They relate to such issues as: submission to expert evaluation and the course of such evaluation, keeping professional secret by a judicial medical expert and the physician in charge of the patient while a medical expert evaluation is in progress, possibility of appointing advisors who have expertise in the subject matter by the judicial expert, the procedure of consignment of the expert’s fee, taxation of experts’ fees, revocatory means in the subject of the expert evaluation, impossibility of filing an objection to the expert evaluation by the called party in a compulsory intervention after a preliminary expert opinion has been issued, ability of the judge to adapt the mission of the expert or to replace one with another expert.