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Applying for a licence for space activities

Do you want to perform activities in space from the Netherlands, such as launches or control and operational activities? You need a licence for space activities from the Dutch Authority for Digital...

Copyright

Are you an author or maker of an original work? Then you determine what happens with your work. The Dutch Copyright Act (Auteurswet) automatically protects the copyright of original works of...

Database rights

Are you the creator or compiler of a database? Database rights protect the data in the database to ensure that certain data cannot be retrieved or reused. This intellectual property right...

Digital Services Act: supervision of online services

Does your company offer an intermediary online service, such as an online platform, online marketplace, or social media network? Then your service must comply with the rules of the European Digital...

Attention: amendment

Import and export of strategic goods and services

Do you import, export, or transit of strategic goods and strategic services? These activities are subject to many rules. The rules apply to, for instance, military goods and the digital transmission...

Mandatory registration of data intermediation service (DGA)

Do you have a data intermediation service? You must register with the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) before you can offer your services. Your services must also be neutral. This is required...

Registering a trademark

The trademark law protects your trademark (brand). If you want to set yourself apart from your competitors, you register your own trademark at a charge. After registration, other parties are not...

Registering semiconductor products (chips rights)

If you have made a semiconductor product, you can protect its topography by registering it with the Netherlands Patent Office. What are semiconductor products? Semiconductors are products which...

Registration of patent attorneys

Do you want to work as a patent attorney in the Netherlands? If so, you have to be registered in the Register of Patent Attorneys (Octrooigemachtigdenregister, in Dutch). What is a patent attorney A...

Registration telecom and mail delivery companies

Do you have a telecom company or are you a postal operator? Mail delivery and telecom companies must register with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (Autoriteit Consument en Markt,...

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

Requirements for telecom providers

Are you a provider of public telecommunications networks or telecommunications services in the Netherlands? You provide, for example networks or services such as: landline or mobile telephony internet...

Attention: amendment

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...

Working with municipal personal records database (BRP)

Every municipal authority in the Netherlands has a Municipal Personal Records Database (Basisregistratie personen, BRP). The BRP contains personal records on all residents, and on those who have left...

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