Insights

On 18 December 2019 the Administrative Law Division of the Council of State (‘the Division’) issued an interesting ruling in the appeal proceedings against the decision to impose an obligation to...

Dutch procurement law is largely influenced by the European Union. For example, every two years the European Commission publishes new thresholds for European tenders. The new thresholds were published...

The District Court of North Holland has given an interesting ruling on (among other things) the qualification of purchase options and pre-emption rights, error, the impact of the intention to occupy...

Last Friday, 29 November 2019, the Supreme Court handed down three judgments regarding transfer tax on the acquisition of an apartment right in a repurposed building.[1] The central legal question in...

In Jurisprudentie Aansprakelijkheid ( JA) 2019/173, Petra klein Gunnewiek wrote a footnote to the ruling of the District Court of The Hague of 25 September 2019. In these civil proceedings on the...

The Youth Act and the Social Support Act 2015 do not prescribe whether an indication must be issued for a certain period of time, nor what the duration of an arrangement to be made should be. In...

In recent years, it has not been entirely clear whether or not corporate lawyers are subject to the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act. Although it was defensible that this was...

In November 2018, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO, the British privacy regulator) discovered a data leak at a business unit of the Marriott hotel chain. This business unit was taken over by...

Sustainability is also a topical issue in tendering. The development of socially responsible purchasing and tools for this is in full swing. This is a good thing, because in practice it is not always...

Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) has once against lost the action it had brought against the State on air quality. The Court of Appeal in The Hague also dismissed the claims on appeal...

In a ruling dated 19 April 2019, the Supreme Court answered preliminary questions on, among other things, the legal nature of the general partnership (hereinafter referred with the Dutch acronym ‘VOF’...

On 17 April 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (hereinafter “DPA”) published recommendations for the privacy policy of organisations. Article 24 of the General Data Protection Regulation...