Legal guides
Practical guides to Dutch law, arranged by area of law: from employment and corporate law to family law, immigration, criminal law and real estate. Written by the lawyers of Law & More in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.
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Copying general terms and conditions: the legal risks in the Netherlands
Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky under Dutch law on three separate grounds: copyright, unlawful act and the validity of the terms themselves. The exception is short standard phrasing, which is too generic for copyright
An ESG clause is a contract term that binds your counterparty to environmental, social and
- Reading time: 13 min
Surrogacy is not a criminal offence in the Netherlands, but there is no statutory surrogacy
- Reading time: 6 min
A startup in the Netherlands protects its intellectual property in two ways: patents, trade marks
- Reading time: 8 min
Dutch law has no separate “right to disconnect”. What binds an employer instead is more
- Reading time: 9 min
The GDPR applies in full as soon as an AI system processes data about an
- Reading time: 6 min
Since the Omnibus I Directive (Directive (EU) 2026/470, in force since 18 March 2026), sustainability
- Reading time: 6 min
Summary dismissal (ontslag op staande voet) ends an employment contract with immediate effect, without notice
- Reading time: 8 min
As an employer in the Netherlands, you may use AI in recruitment, performance management and
- Reading time: 8 min
A civil case in the Netherlands starts with a writ of summons (dagvaarding) served by
- Reading time: 9 min
Money laundering is a crime; an unusual transaction is not. Money laundering (witwassen) is a
- Reading time: 15 min
Selling a Dutch tech scale-up runs through a share purchase agreement (SPA) and a notarial
- Reading time: 5 min
The partner of a highly skilled migrant (kennismigrant) can live and work in the Netherlands
- Reading time: 8 min
