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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...

Landlords like to keep control over which people actually use the homes they let. For this reason, is very common to include a clause in the general terms and conditions applying to the tenancy...

Following the advice of the Council of State, Minister Hoekstra of Finance presented the UBO register bill to the House of Representatives on 4 April 2019. The UBO register will enter into force in...

On 15 March 2019, the Dutch Personal Data Authority (DDPA) published a news item in which the DDPA shared its view on employers testing employees for the use of alcohol, drugs or medicines during...

In Jurisprudentie Aansprakelijkheid ( JA) 2019/15, Petra klein Gunnewiek wrote a footnote to the partial dispute ruling of the Rotterdam District Court of 24 October 2018. The central question in this...

On 14 September 2018, the Supreme Court gave an important ruling extending the right to transition pay to cases where the employment contract only partially ends or where the working hours are reduced...

On 28 December 2018 the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration published a new guide on the interpretation of the term ‘Early Retirement Scheme’, as referred to in Section 32ba of the Wages and Salaries...

In our previous Legal Update we discussed the regulators’ study in the field of crypto regulation. The study has led to two recommendations: 1. the introduction of a Money Laundering and Terrorist...

On 25 May 2018 we wrote about (the lack of) regulation in the field of cryptocurrencies and a call from the House of Representatives for a more active approach. Last Friday the Minister for Finance...