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Short Reads - Het UWV zal verzoeken van werkgevers om intrekking van het besluit tot verlening van de NOW-subsidie vanaf heden afwijzen. Reden hiervoor is de grote hoeveelheid intrekkingsverzoeken die tot hoge uitvoeringslasten bij het UWV leidt. De minister heeft aangekondigd dat het UWV daarom intrekkingsverzoeken niet meer inhoudelijk behandelt maar direct afwijst.

Short Reads - On 16 February 2021, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal (the Court of Appeal) set aside a judgment of the Amsterdam District Court (the District Court) in which the District Court declined jurisdiction over the alleged claims against Athenian Brewery (AB), a Greek subsidiary of Heineken N.V. (Heineken), in a civil case brought by competitor Macedonian Thrace Brewery (MTB).

Short Reads - A heads-up for companies with cross-border activities. The ECN+ Directive’s transposition deadline has expired and its provisions should by now have found their way into the national laws of the EU Member States. In the Netherlands, amendments to the Dutch Competition Act giving effect to the ECN+ Directive came into force recently, together with a new governmental decree on leniency.