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The Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (ECGT) Directive introduces a new EU‑wide framework to combat greenwashing and social washing across all consumer markets.

Independent contractors, known as Zelfstandige Zonder Personeel (ZZPs), are a common part of the Dutch workforce. For foreign companies considering cross-border hiring...

Dutch companies with 50 or more employees must establish works councils that hold statutory consultation rights over significant business decisions. Understanding when works council advice is required—particularly for financings, guarantees, security packages, and control transfers—is essential for transaction planning and legal compliance.

Court fees are costs that everyone must pay to bring a case to court and to defend themselves in a case before a judge. To strengthen access to justice, court fees will be reduced...

In Europe it has been unclear for years whether card and lease companies are entitled to recover VAT on fuel costs. Also in the Netherlands, the VAT treatment of fuel costs is an occasional topic of discussion.

As recently as 2019, Nexperia was acquired by the Chinese company Wingtech without any government oversight or media fuss. This shows how much the world has changed.

Companies often seek to engage contractors to perform certain services. This may be for a variety of reasons, often because certain contractors have particular skills but are not needed on a long-term basis.

Recent case law illustrates the need for companies to carefully consider the risk of interest deductions being disallowed if they use a related party debt to fund an acquisition through a Dutch holding company.

The Supreme Court confirmed in a recent judgment that "commercial" contracts too should be interpreted on the basis of the Haviltex principle.

‘There are many similarities between commercial disputes and commercial transaction negotiations', Van Dijk explains.

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has issued a landmark decision clarifying when patent application descriptions must be adapted to match amended claims. This ruling challenges the previous "mandatory adaptation" approach and establishes new criteria for determining genuine inconsistencies that require correction.

On 30 December 2013, an act to insert Volume VI into the Commercial Code was published in the Belgian State Gazette.

Since January 1, 2019, there is a new (and special) court: the Netherlands Commercial Court ("NCC"). The NCC deals with international cases concerning commercial disputes.

Construction contracts often lack specific completion dates, leaving clients wondering if contractors can take unlimited time. Dutch courts have established that even without agreed deadlines, contractors must complete work within a reasonable timeframe and with sufficient diligence, providing clients with legal recourse when projects drag on unreasonably.

The Act on the Admission for the Posting of Workers by Intermediaries (Wtta) fundamentally transforms the Dutch legal framework for worker posting by replacing the current registration system with a strict admission requirement.

The ECGT Directive introduces a further EU framework on ESG communications aimed at mitigating greenwashing and social washing.

De taalkundige betekenis van de gekozen bewoordingen in een overeenkomst hoeft niet doorslaggevend te zijn.

The EU institutions are no longer continuing with the negotiations to find an agreement on the proposal for a Green Claims Directive, following a series of announcements...