Dit artikel beschrijft de voorgeschiedenis, totstandkoming en inhoud van Richtlijn (EU) 2019/2121. Auteurs bespreken relevante jurisprudentie en de volgens de Mobiliteitsrichtlijn te volgen procedure om een grensoverschrijdende verrichting tot stand te brengen. Daarnaast bezien zij aan welke instantie het toezicht op de rechtmatigheid van de grensoverschrijdende verrichting kan worden opgedragen.

Controleplichtig maar geen accountant kunnen vinden. Het overkomt verschillende beursvennootschappen. Minister Hoekstra is daarom voornemens om een verplichte toewijzing van een accountant aan controleplichtige entiteiten wettelijk te verankeren. In deze bijdrage staan de achtergrond en enkele aandachtspunten bij het voornemen van verplichte aanwijzing van de accountant centraal.

In zijn Landis-beschikking uit 2005 heeft de Hoge Raad de concernenquête gesanctioneerd, zodat aandeel- of certificaathouders van een moedermaatschappij de Ondernemingskamer (mede) bevoegdelijk, ex art. 2:346 lid 1 onder b of c BW, kunnen verzoeken om een onderzoek bij een daaronder hangende dochtermaatschappij. Vijftien jaar later heeft hij opnieuw een beschikking gegeven over deze enquête, en wel in de SNS-zaak. Die beschikking wordt in dit artikel onder de loep genomen. Met de Landis-beschikking is onze cassatierechter weggedobberd van de rechtszekerheid. In zijn SNS-beschikking roeit de Hoge Raad daar weer naartoe. Niettemin heeft hij die bestemming, de rechtszekerheid, nog niet bereikt.

Applying the ECJ’s Maschek judgment, the Zutphen subdistrict court has found that an employee was not entitled to an allowance in lieu of untaken paid annual leave at the end of the employment relationship, as she had already received special leave. Moreover, the obligation to inform the employee concerning the right to (exercise) paid annual leave did not rest upon the employer.

Annotatie bij ECLI:NL:HR:2020:374. Bevestiging objectieve invulling van het strekkingsvereiste, interessante annotatie over objectieve invulling pleitbaar standpunt, onnodig bestanddeel tenlastelegging ‘te lage bedragen’.

In deze kroniek bespreken de auteurs de relevante bestuursrechtelijke uitspraken en ontwikkelingen op het terrein van de gezondheidszorg. Deze kroniek ziet op de periode van 1 februari 2019 tot en met 1 juni 2020.

De coronapandemie in het voorjaar van 2020 had grote gevolgen voor de toegankelijkheid en kwaliteit van de gezondheidszorg. In dit artikel worden enkele thema’s vanuit een juridisch perspectief besproken: het verbod op contactberoepen, het tegengaan van ziekenhuisopnames en het selecteren van patiënten bij een tekort aan IC-bedden.

The administrative law sector of the Overijssel Court has asked preliminary questions about the level of holiday pay during sickness, in situations where sick pay is lower than regular pay. This enables the ECJ to clarify its case law on holiday pay once more.

This article discusses the problem of excessive drug use from a historical perspective. Cultural ambivalence towards excessive use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs has roots going back into the seventeenth century. A case study is presented of the introduction and adaptation of tobacco in the Dutch republic. Dutch national and colonial drug regulation is discussed. It is concluded that regulations have been primarily motivated by anxieties about excessive behaviour among the labouring classes, endangering public order, and non-white users in the colonies. This has led to criminalization of excessive behaviour, and to the creation of a criminal underground economy.

Given that the social life of youngsters develops more and more online, attention for cybercrime has grown as well. However, no Flemish data is available yet. This study uses data from two representative samples of the Flemish youth to research the prevalence and risk profiles of on- and offline crime. Compared to offline crime, online crime is relatively limited. In addition, results showed that online offenders had the least severe risk profile, while offenders of both on- and offline delinquency had the most severe profile. For victimization, it appeared that it is important to consider individual types of offences, since complex differences were found between various crime types. These results indicate a limited, but not ignorable, occurrence of online crime, and a difference in risk profiles for offline and online crime.

Studies investigating peer influence on risk behaviors, such as antisocial behavior and substance abuse, mostly study the amount of change in which adolescents adapt their risk behavior to become more similar to their friends. Onset of risk behavior, changing form having no experience to having any experience with risk behavior, has been studies far less. This study investigates friends’ influence on the onset of risk behavior and their influence in changes in risk behavior. Hypotheses were tested using SNARE (Social Network Analysis of Risk behavior in Early adolescence) data (N=1.144), containing information on risk behavior (i.e. antisocial behavior, alcohol use, and tobacco use) and friendship networks at three timepoints during the first year of secondary education (M_age= 12.7; SD=0.47). Analyses, using longitudinal social network analysis (RSIENA), showed that although adolescents adapt their risk behavior to become more similar to their friends, they are not influence in by their friends in the onset of risk behavior. These findings suggest s more nuanced role of friends in the onset of risk behavior. Interventions aiming at friends might benefit from differentiating between the onset and further (dis)continuation of risk behavior as these friendship influence processes might be less relevant for the onset of risk behavior.

How can you determine if financial legislation is effective? This article seeks to identify three characteristics that make up the basis for an effectiveness review, being the determination what the legislative objective is, who is it aimed at and what approach is taken to achieve this objective. Determining the legislative objective may prove to be a challenging undertaking, and the uncertainties that come with that affect the other two characteristics as well. And even if a clear legislative objective can be established, how can you be sure that its achievement was in fact attributable to the legislation under review? What do you compare your results to absent a baseline measurement and how can the vast number of variables that affect the effectiveness of the legislation under review be accounted for, if at all? Is effectiveness in financial legislation at all measurable and, when measured, what is its value in practice?

In the last decade neuropsychological insights have gained influence with regard to age boundaries in legal procedures, however, in Dutch civil law no such influence can be distinguished. Recently, voices have been raised to improve children’s legal position in civil law: to reflect upon the minimum age limit of twelve years for children to be invited to be heard in court and the need for children to have a stronger procedural position.
In this article, first the current legal position of children in Dutch law and practice will be analysed. Second, development of psychological constructs relevant for family law will be discussed in relation to underlying brain developmental processes and contextual effects. These constructs encompass cognitive capacity, autonomy, stress responsiveness and (peer) pressure.
From the first part it becomes clear that in Dutch family law, there is a tortuous jungle of age limits, exceptions and limitations regarding children’s procedural rights. Until recently, the Dutch government has been reluctant to improve the child’s procedural position in family law. Over the last two years, however, there has been an inclination towards further reflecting on improvements to the child’s procedural rights, which, from a children’s rights perspective, is an important step forward. Relevant neuropsychological insights support improvements for a better realisation of the child’s right to be heard, such as hearing children younger than twelve years of age in civil court proceedings.

The election defeat of the Christian coalition in 1905 is partly caused by contradictions in its own circle. Many orthodox members of the Dutch Reformed Church resented Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper for having legally regulated the position of the Free University at Amsterdam, but had done nothing for the rights of the Dutch Reformed Church in the theological faculties at the universities of the state. The reformed theologian Hoedemaker even aroused a preference for a liberal rather than an anti-revolutionary candidate. Kuyper’s party lost nine seats, the coalition lost three seats to the majority.

Het gebruik van artificial intelligence (AI) door vennootschappen zal de komende jaren een vlucht nemen, met ingrijpende veranderingen voor de bestuurstaak tot gevolg. Dit artikel bespreekt de noodzaak voor bestuurders tot het voeren van deugdelijk AI-risicobeheer alsmede de manier waarop deze vorm van risicobeheer de maatstaf voor bestuurdersaansprakelijkheid dient in te kleuren.