Business management
Amendments for all entrepreneurs
Yet to come into effect (15)
Fuel excise duty reduction extended to end of 2025
Effective date: 1 januari 2025
The previously reduced excise duty on petrol, diesel, and LPG will remain in place throughout 2025. In addition, there will be no inflation adjustment on fuel excise duty in 2025. As a result, the...
Low-income benefits (LIV) to be abolished in 2025
Effective date: 1 januari 2025
Do you receive low-income benefits (LIV) for your employees? From 2025, you will no longer receive this contribution towards your wage costs. Employees that fall under the LIV scheme work at least...
Legal entities may hold digital meetings
Effective date: 1 januari 2025
Are you a board member or shareholder of a public or private limited company (nv or bv)? Legal entities such as public limited company (nv), private limited company (bv), association (vereniging),...
You can always communicate online with the government
Effective date: 1 januari 2025
Do you want to request products or services from your municipality, province, or water authority? You have the right to send official notices, such as applications for permits or objections, to the...
Ban on cash payments over €3,000
Effective date: 31 maart 2025
Do you often pay large amounts in banknotes? The government intends to ban cash payments for amounts of over €3,000. This ban applies to traders (professional or commercial buyers and vendors of...
European Data Act for fairer access to and use of data
Effective date: 12 september 2025
The goal of the European Data Act is to offer businesses, citizens, and governments more options to use and share data. These data are currently only or mainly available to the manufacturers of the...
Netting scheme for solar panels ends per 2027
Effective date: 1 januari 2027
Do you have solar panels for your business and do you sell electricity back to the grid? The netting scheme (salderingsregeling) ends on 1 January 2027. As a small-volume user, you are now allowed to...
Mandatory occupational disability insurance (AOV) for self-employed professionals
Effective date: 1 januari 2027
The government wants all self-employed professionals to be insured against disability. This will be compulsory. Are you a self-employed professional (zzp'er)? You will be obliged to take out insurance...
Data of people in debt exchanged more easily
Effective date: not yet known
Are you a self-employed professional without staff or a director-major shareholder dga and do you have debts? Government organisations and bailiffs will exchange information about foreclosure and...
Cybersecurity obligations for more companies in critical sectors (NIS2)
Effective date: end of 2024
More companies and organisations in critical sectors will have obligations (duty of care and reporting duty) to increase cybersecurity and counter cyberattacks. These obligations are set out in the...
CER directive protects critical infrastructure against physical risks
Effective date: end of 2024
More and more often the safety of our society and economy is under pressure. That is why the European Union has worked out 2 directives: the Critical Entities Resilience directive (CER directive) the...
Social entrepreneurship to get more recognition
Effective date: not yet known
Does your company have a social or societal goal? Regulations and playing field for businesses with a social goal are set to be improved. Social enterprsies can get a societal status in the form of a...
Difference between professional partnership and general partnership will cease to exist
Effective date: not yet known
Do you want to start a company together with colleagues? There will be new rules for partnerships. Right now there are 3 types of partnerships: professional partnership (maatschap) general partnership...
Government checks investments that might pose a risk to national security
Effective date: June 2023
Does your company carry out processes vital to society? Or does your company have sensitive technology? You need to report changes in who has control of the company to the Bureau for Verification of...
Preventing child labour
Effective date: not yet known
Do you sell products or services? You have to make sure that these do not involve child labour at any stage. You have to be able to show that you are doing what is needed to prevent child labour. If...
Already in effect (3)
EU rules on trustworthy Artificial Intelligence systems (AI Act)
Effective date: 1 augustus 2024
The EU has introduced rules on the development and uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Those rules are listed in the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). The aim of these rules is to ensure...
Hosting company that has child porn on servers can be fined
Effective date: 1 juli 2024
Do you work at a hosting company? Hosting companies have to clean their servers of online child sexual abuse images. The harmful images must be deleted and then be made inaccessible to internet users....
Data intermediation services must be neutral and register (DGA)
Effective date: 24 september 2023
Do you have a data intermediation service, you are a so-called data intermediary? The Data Governance Act (DGA) states that you must register with the regulatory body before you can offer your...
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