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

You need a Community licence (Eurovergunning), issued by the NIWO, before you may transport goods

Every Dutch B.V. and N.V. must file its annual accounts electronically with the commercial register

Under Dutch law, a social media post is a publication, just like a newspaper article.

The Computer Crime III Act (Wet computercriminaliteit III) allows Dutch investigators to secretly enter phones,