New Corporate Law Legislation

In the field of corporate law, there are four (coming) Acts that attract attention, namely the introduction of the tenth book of the Dutch Civil Code, the amendment of the Marital Property Act and, to conclude, the coming entry into effect of the Management and Supervision Act and the Flexibilization of BV Act. Please find below a short explanation of each Act.

Dutch Civil Code Book 10

As of 2012 a new Book 10 of the Dutch Civil Code has entered into effect. Book 10 contains the codification of the most important aspects of Dutch international private law. The most prominent is the so-called conflict of laws. These are rules by means of which the applicable law to an international legal relationship is determined. Until the introduction of Book 10, the conflict of law rules were placed in a separate act per subarea. The codification amounts to more than just the combination of separate acts. The regulations have also been fine-tuned, as a result of which a