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External safety plays a role under the Environment and Planning Act in the drafting of environmental plans and the granting of environmental permits. Compared to the former environmental law regime, some important changes are taking place.

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) came into force on 1 October 2023. Importers of certain carbon-intensive goods have to report on emissions released during the production of those goods.

ESMA publishes explanatory notes to various concepts under the Taxonomy Regulation, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and the Benchmark Regulation.

For the environmental permit under the Omgevingswet (Environment and Planning Act), many things will change compared to the old legislation. In this blog, we address a number of important changes.

Na meer dan een decennium debat binnen en buiten de Eerste en Tweede Kamer en diverse keren uitstel
lijkt de Omgevingswet (Ow) op 1 januari 2024 dan eindelijk in werking te treden.

The Municipalities Preferential Rights Act (Wet voorkeursrecht gemeenten – Wvg) allows municipalities, provinces and the national government of the Netherlands to establish a preferential right on immovable property.

Under the Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet), the concept of establishment is no longer the focal point for the regulation, but rather the environmentally harmful activity. In this blog post, we among others describe what happens to permits.

With the arrival of the Omgevingswet (Environment and Planning Act) as of 1 January 2024, the concept of the omgevingsplan (environmental plan) will make its appearance.

The bill to implement the changes to the European Emission Trading System (ETS) has been submitted to the Lower House. The bill envisages three major changes.

The nature of the permit system for construction activities will change significantly when the Environment and Planning Act (the “Act”) enters into force on 1 January 2024.

With the entry into force of the Environment Act ("Ow") on 1 January 2024, a new system of quality assurance will take effect in stages. In this blog post, we discuss the public law part of this new quality assurance system.

The authors discuss a recent judgment by the Dutch Supreme Court that extends the right of setoff for banks before and during bankruptcy and suspension of payments.

The applicability of a choice-of-court clause in general terms and conditions referred to by a hyperlink in the contract does NOT require the other party to have ticked a separate box for consent to the applicability of those GT&C.