In its judgment of 29 May 2020 (ECLI:NL:HR:2020:973), the Supreme Court devoted an interesting consideration to how the tax court should assess the proportionality of administrative penalties. The Supreme Court…
read moreThe Act establishing the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (Act) obliges the ACM to publish a decision in which a serious infringement (such as infringement of the prohibition on…
read moreAdministrative judge is obliged to caution the (legal) person on whom a fine is imposed at a hearing
In its judgment of 15 November 2019, the Supreme Court (Tax Division) ruled that in administrative penalty cases, the administrative judge is obliged to always caution a person on whom…
read moreOn 7 November 2018, the Administrative Jurisdiction Division issued a final judgment that was important for the practice of fines imposed under the working conditions legislation. It stipulates that when…
read moreNot only in criminal law but also in administrative law, co-perpetrators, in addition to perpetrators, can be faced with an administrative fine. A ruling by the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of…
read moreOn 13 June 2018, the Administrative Jurisdiction Division issued an important ruling for the practice of fines. In that case, the Division ruled that there was no basis for imposing…
read moreOn 14 March 2018, an interlocutory decision of the Administrative Jurisdiction Division was published in which it applied an administrative loop in assessing the amount of an administrative fine. This…
read moreOn 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enter into force. The regulation has direct effect in the Dutch legal system. As a result, the Dutch privacy…
read moreOn 26 April 2018, the government announced its long-awaited vision of how it will improve legal protection for companies and citizens facing administrative fines. This special report is a response…
read moreOn 2 August 2017, the Administrative Jurisdiction Division ruled on the permissibility of the publication of asbestos fines on the website of the Inspectorate SZW (ECLI:NL:RVS:2017:2086). In this blog post,…
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