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The Personal Data Authority (Dutch DPA) has fined the Royal Dutch Lawn Tennis Association (KNLTB) €525,000 for unlawfully selling the personal data of more than 350,000 members to two sponsors. In the...

Over the past months the government has taken steps to solve the nitrogen problem. For example, a package of measures was presented for housing construction and MIRT projects and 172 million euros...

The legislative proposal for the ‘Governance & Supervision of Legal Entities Act’ was adopted by the Lower House of Parliament on 28 January 2020. The legislative proposal meets the practical need for...

Profit distribution in healthcare is a topic that continues to divide sentiments. In 2019, the emphasis was mainly on the risks. In a description in March, NZa and IGJ complained about deficient...

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...