Met de publicatie van de Leidraad tariefafspraken zzp’ers beoogt de Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM) duidelijkheid te scheppen over de verenigbaarheid van zulke afspraken met het mededingingsrecht. Aangezien zzp’ers in de regel worden gezien als onderneming, vallen onderlinge afspraken over prijzen in beginsel onder het kartelverbod. De ACM signaleert de zorg dat zzp’ers door concurrentie onder het bestaansminimum uitkomen. Zij heeft in de Leidraad drie volgens haar toepasselijke uitzonderingen op het kartelverbod geformuleerd. Daarnaast kondigt de ACM aan het kartelverbod niet te zullen handhaven ten aanzien van afspraken die het door het kabinet beoogde minimumloon voor zzp’ers van 16 euro per uur vastleggen. Of dit minimumloon er komt en wat het voor deze toezegging betekent als dit niet het geval is, zal moeten blijken.
Artikel 6 Mededingingswet en artikel 101 Verdrag betreffende de Werking van de Europese Unie

In former times, citizens themselves were responsible for ensuring and protecting their own safety. Over the years, this responsibility largely shifted to the government, partly due to the establishment of an institutionalized police force. In recent years, citizens have increasingly reestablishing themselves in domain of social security. Citizens are engaged in tasks that are traditionally seen as primarily the responsibility of the police, such as law enforcement, criminal investigation and immediate in case of emergencies.
Technology can be considered as one of the major driving forces behind this increasing contribution of citizens in the field of security. Technology makes it possible to quickly find and share information and enhances people’s ability to deal with cognitively complex tasks. In a certain way, technology democratizes police work by making the skills and tools available for every citizen.
In this article we will discuss the value of a specific form of technological support for citizens in their search for missing persons: the missing persons app ‘Sarea’. The Netherlands has a high number of missing persons and in many incidents citizens start searching themselves. Often, this citizen initiatives are uncoordinated. Therefore, an app has been developed by the police to help citizens start and coordinate their own searches for a missing person.

Een minderheidsaandeelhouder kan worden geconfronteerd met diverse nadelige gevolgen van een emissie van aandelen in het kapitaal van de BV waarin hij participeert, terwijl de wet hem daartegen vaak onvoldoende beschermt. De auteur bespreekt verschillende vormen van contractuele of statutaire bescherming tegen (de negatieve effecten van) verwatering.

Professionals from various organisations within Dutch local governments are working together in an integrated-personalized-approach in order to prevent disturbing and criminal behavior in multi problem young adults. The Startbaan study, which focused on the collaboration within such local integrated-approaches, shows that multidisciplinary collaboration is hard to reach because of the amount and versatility of organisations involved as well as the complexity of problems in multi problem young adults. Results from the Startbaan study combined with findings from literature show that a functional mix of organizational conditions and specific professional abilities is needed in order to work together successfully.

It is unclear to what extent criminal record screening policies can explain low employment rates after release. This descriptive study provides more insight into this matter by examining whether ex-prisoners applied for a certificate of conduct, found employment and whether this job was found without such a certificate. To answer these questions interview data on ex-prisoners (N=931) are combined with data on criminal record screenings. Only 6 percent applied for a certificate, half of which were granted. Many ex-prisoners did not report any employment, but almost all working ex-prisoners found this job without a certificate. These findings bring nuance to discussions on the role of criminal record screening after release.

Increasing digitization and datafication lead to an increasingly important role of data in our society and to changes in the way institutions work and decisions are made. Although it can lead to changes in the type of crime (e.g. cybercrime), datafication also facilitates shifts from visible and registered crime to crime that has not (yet) been measured and registered, like manifestations of organized crime. Analyzing so-called big data can help to recognize new forms of crime, predict risk factors, and decrease the dark number of these forms of crime.
In this study, we illustrate which indicators determine the stage of an industrial area regarding the occurrence of organized crime. Our supervised machine learning analysis shows that a number of indicators actually have predictive value for the degree of organized crime. These indicators could be used in the future to distinguish which industrial areas run an increased risk of organized and subversive crime.

An exceptionally high prevalence of financial debt problems can be found among prisoners, but criminological knowledge on the link between debts and crime is limited. Previous studies are hindered by a lack of information on types of debts, informal debts and background characteristics. This article provides first and detailed insights in the types and amount of debts during and after prison in the Netherlands. Based on data from the Prison Project we show that the majority of prisoners report having debts during prison, show how different types of debts are related and how these debts change six months after release.

EU-lidstaten zijn op grond van de Europese marktordeningsregels bevoegd door (unies van) producentenorganisaties en brancheorganisaties vastgestelde landbouwvoorschriften uit te breiden tot niet-leden. Deze niet-leden kunnen tevens worden verplicht een financiële bijdrage te betalen. In de Nederlandse landbouw wordt dit avv-instrument pas vrij recent en dan ook nog eens uitsluitend voor onderzoek en ontwikkeling ingezet. De Europese regels bieden echter ruimte voor een veel bredere toepassing, zoals bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van dierenwelzijn, voedselveiligheid en milieubescherming. De Minister van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit heeft de Raad van State inmiddels gevraagd welke ruimte zij daarvoor heeft.

Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp is the auctor intellectualis of the 1818 Dutch constitution. It was his sketch for a new constitution that was used as a starting point for the deliberations of its original drafting committee. Van Hogendorp justifies his constitution as a restoration of the Burgundian constitution that applied before the Dutch Republic. In recent literature Van Hogendorp’s restorational argument is presented as an invention of tradition. In this article an alternative explanation is presented, namely that it is part of a form of classicist political thought that was common during the ancien régime. Van Hogendorp describes his constitution as a moderate monarchy, in which the three principles of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy are properly balanced. And he mainly defends this mixed regime by pointing out that it is a restoration of the old Burgundian constitution of the Netherlands. This way of reasoning is, as will be shown, typically classicistic.

De aandeelhouders van NAM zijn in beginsel niet aansprakelijk voor de verplichtingen van NAM in verband met aardbevingsschade. De bijzondere situatie in Groningen is aanleiding geweest voor de aandeelhouders om dat uitgangspunt vrijwillig te doorbreken. In deze bijdrage staat de aansprakelijkheidspositie van de aandeelhouders die daarvan het gevolg is centraal.

Dit artikel beschrijft de positie van de STAK en certificaathouders binnen de wettelijke geschillenregeling, mede in het licht van het recent gewezen arrest Cox/Widdershoven. De auteur betoogt dat de certificaathouders meer mogelijkheden moeten krijgen om van de regeling gebruik te maken. De auteur doet daarvoor enkele concrete voorstellen.

In deze bijdrage bespreken de auteurs de op 24 april 2020 in werking getreden Tijdelijke wet COVID-19 Justitie en Veiligheid. Deze wet geeft verschillende voorzieningen voor vergaderingen van bestuur en raad van commissarissen, algemene vergaderingen, ledenvergaderingen en verslaglegging door tijdelijke afwijkingen van en aanvullingen op Boek 2 BW toe te staan.

In order to improve the effectiveness of offender supervision many studies have been conducted into risk factors for delinquency. Evidence was found that debts and crime are interrelated. However, understanding of potential underlying risk factors in this relationship is limited. Results of an analysis of client files (N=250) show that debts among probation clients are highly prevalent and problems with respect to education, work and mental and physical health seem to be important underlying factors in the relationship between debts and crime. In addition, interviews were conducted with both probation workers (N=33) and clients (N=16) to get insight into the possibilities to adequately support clients with regard to debts in order to stimulate successful resocialization. Results underline the importance of paying attention to possible underlying factors to effectively supervise clients.