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On 11 July 2018, the District Court of The Hague ruled on the relationship between education and individual youth assistance services under the Youth Act. The following facts and circumstances are...

As of 1 August 2018, the new Implementation Rules of the UWV apply to dismissals for economic reasons (i.e. redundancies) and because of long-term work incapacity. This Legal Update covers the most...

On 27 June 2018, a number of members of the Dutch House of Representatives jointly submitted the bill for the Climate Act. This bill is actually an amended version of the earlier bill for a Climate...

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA) has demanded an incremental penalty payment of €48,000 from a bank for its failure to comply with a customer’s request to review their personal data, thereby...

We recently reported to you on the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive Implementation Act, which was passed by the Dutch Senate on 10 July 2018. This Act amends the current Laundering and Terrorist...

It has been known for some time that the legislator wants to get rid of structures through which healthcare providers ‘circumvent’ the remuneration ceiling for directors. Following reports about this...

In a previous Legal Update, we discussed the initial findings on the Remuneration Policy (Financial Enterprises) Act. At the time, it was clearly still too early to draw definitive conclusions about...

At last, more than a year after it should have entered into force, the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive Implementation Act has been adopted by the Dutch House of Representatives. Now all that is...

Last Friday, the Dutch Supreme Court answered the question as to whether the cancellation of the right to payment due to a violation by the insured of its obligation to inform the insurer should be...

The obligation to pay the transition payment (i.e. statutory severance pay) following long-term work incapacity has been the subject of debate for some time. We previously informed you about the bill...

A case is currently pending before the European Court of Justice (“ ECJ”) concerning the definition of a payment account within the meaning of the Payment Services Directive (“ PSD”). On 19 June 2018...

The world has seen many technological developments in the nearly 130 years that have passed since the introduction of the Bankruptcy Act. However, bankruptcy proceedings have remained virtually...