Professional services

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Accountants (8 regulations)Architects (2 regulations)Civil-law notaries (5 regulations)Court bailiffs (3 regulations)Financial services (19 regulations)Interpreters and translators (3 regulations)IT companies (13 regulations)Lawyers (6 regulations)Real estate agencies (14 regulations)Research and inspection services (15 regulations)Security companies (5 regulations)Travel agencies (5 regulations)

Advertising for financial products

If you advertise a credit or a type of investment, you must include a risk warning. For instance 'Let op! Geld lenen kost geld’ (Warning! It costs money to loan money). The Netherlands Authority for...

Applying for a street trader's licence

Do you sell a product or offer a service worth more than €50? Then you must comply with the rules on door-to-door selling and street trade. Market trader's licence Do you want to sell food or goods...

Complying with the Sanctions Act

Are you a financial service provider or do you own an investment firm in the Netherlands? For example, a bank, insurance company, (money) exchange organisation, pension fund, trust office or leasing...

Door-to-door selling and street trade

Do you sell outside of a salesroom or shop? For instance door-to-door? You must keep to more rules than when selling from a shop or salesroom. You must, for instance, inform your customer clearly....

Filing disciplinary proceedings

Do you practise an independent profession? You must observe the rules of conduct and the rules of professional practice that apply to your profession. Is your client dissatisfied? They can file a...

Information on services and costs of financial products

Do you offer or broker financial products or services in the Netherlands, for example investments, insurances, loans, or mortgages? You have to provide correct and clear information. You must provide...

Insurance premium tax

If you take out insurance in the Netherlands, you have to pay insurance premium tax (assurantiebelasting). Insurance premium tax is not deductable. What is insurance premium tax? Insurance premium tax...

Investigating financial services clients

Are you a financial service provider, such as a bank, an insurance company, a civil-law notary, or a tax consultant? In the Netherlands, you must investigate your clients and other parties concerned...

Licence financial services provider

Do you provide financial services in the Netherlands? For example, you offer advice on financial products or provide credit (lend money). Then you must have a licence from the Authority Financial...

Attention: amendment

Oath or solemn affirmation financial sector

Every employee of a financial institution must take the bankers' oath. By taking this oath or solemn affirmation, employees promise they will work according to the Code of Conduct (gedragscode). Who...

Professional qualifications and diplomas

You do not need a separate diploma or a permit to work in the Netherlands or to establish a business in the Netherlands. However, for certain professions you need to meet specific professional...

Attention: amendment

Reporting cross-border constructions

Are you a financial service provider or an entrepreneur involved in cross-border (financial) contstructions? You have to report cross-border constructions in which you are a party and which may be...

Reporting cybercrime (Wbni act)

Do you offer digital services or do you supply essential services? You need to take measures to protect your business from cybercrime. In case of a cyber security incident you must report this. This...

Attention: amendment

Reporting market abuse

Do you provide financial services in the Netherlands and do you have a reasonable suspicion of insider trading or market manipulation? You must report this suspicion as quickly as possible to the...

Reporting unusual transactions

Have you seen one of your clients complete a transaction that does not fit their normal way of doing business? In the Netherlands, financial institutions must report unusual financial transactions...

Rules for debt collection service providers

A debt collecting agency helps businesses with customers who do not pay their invoices. Do you have a debt collecting agency or do you perform debt collection work? If so, you are a debt collection...

Rules for telesales

Do you offer services or products by telephone? Then you must keep to a number of rules. Cold calling is banned. Ban on cold calling Companies and organisations are not allowed to call natural...

Standard Business Reporting (SBR)

As an entrepreneur in the Netherlands you are generally obliged to provide financial reports digitally to banks and government agencies. For example the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration...

Statutory audits by audit firms

If your audit firm carries out statutory audits, such as auditing the financial statements of a public company, you will require a licence under the Audit Firms Supervision Act (Wet toezicht...

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