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General Terms and Conditions: Why Copying Them Will Cost You Dearly

Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky on three separate legal grounds, and those risks are cumulative rather than alternatives. First, terms drafted with an original structure and wording enjoy copyright protection under the Dutch Copyright

A donor agreement records what a sperm donor and the intended parents agree about the

A licence is permission from the holder of an intellectual property right to use that

In a crisis the supervisory board of a Dutch NV or BV is expected to

The statutory two-tier company (structuurvennootschap) is a Dutch NV or BV that, because of its

Did the police detain you for days and do you now wonder whether this is

A tenant of residential accommodation in the Netherlands has two core rights. The first is

A tenant of residential accommodation in the Netherlands enjoys rent protection by operation of law.

A Dutch divorce runs through a fixed set of decisions, and taking them in the

An employer that wants to employ someone from outside the EU, the EEA or Switzerland

A landlord’s obligations under Dutch law come down to one principle: the property must be

Dutch transfer tax on the acquisition of immovable property is charged at different rates depending

Retention of title lets a seller remain the owner of goods it has already delivered