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If you wish to employ minors in your company, strict rules from the Working Hours Act and the further regulations regarding child labor apply. Much depends on age: for children up to and...
Merely referring to your general terms and conditions on your website or at the Chamber of Commerce is often not enough. The law requires you to give the other party a reasonable opportunity to...
In a 'battle of forms' between companies in the Netherlands, the first shot rule applies: the general terms and conditions of whoever refers to their terms first prevail — unless the other party...
You can sell a leasehold right, but the landowner may stipulate in the lease conditions that transfer requires his consent. If he refuses without reasonable grounds, the subdistrict court judge may grant substitute consent...
If drugs are found in your rented property, the mayor can close the property pursuant to the Opium Act (Article 13b). As a landlord, you can limit this by in advance...
You may not simply use an existing font in your logo or corporate identity. A font may be protected by copyright, and the associated font file almost always is. Without the proper license, you risk...
Upon termination of the agency agreement, the commercial agent is often entitled to a client compensation (Article 7:442 of the Dutch Civil Code): a goodwill compensation for the clients he introduced and from which you still benefit....
A blog post or message with a promotional nature is easily considered advertising. If you link to, for example, a gambling provider without a Dutch license, you may be in violation of...
You may charge cancellation fees if a customer cancels an order, but for consumers, a cancellation fee clause is on the grey list (Article 6:237 of the Dutch Civil Code): it is presumed to be unreasonably burdensome...
The right of suspension gives you the right to postpone your own obligation as long as the other party fails to fulfill its agreement (Article 6:52 of the Dutch Civil Code). However, you may not simply exercise it:...
