In dit artikel wordt een overzicht gegeven van de overwegingen die ten grondslag liggen aan de marktafbakening bij de productie van eigen merk (branded), co-packing (merk van een derde) en private label (huismerk). Hierbij zullen zaken en kernoverwegingen uit de beschikkingspraktijk van de Europese Commissie, de ACM en de Britse mededingingsautoriteit CMA worden besproken. Het artikel spitst zicht toe op overwegingen voor het upstream (productie)niveau aan de hand van beschikkingen inzake, met name, levensmiddelen.

Wat is de te verwachten impact van de coronavirusuitbraak op de ontwikkeling van het EU-gezondheidsrecht en -beleid? Wat kunnen we verwachten in de toekomst van de rol van de EU in de bestrijding van grensoverschrijdende ziekten?

Between 2013-2017 there were many ISIS videos circulating. It was generally assumed that these videos would encourage young Muslims to radicalize and join ISIS. But what do we actually know about the imaginary world of young people? Do sociological aspects such as the economic, cultural and religious background play a decisive role in this? Can we use the films and TV series that young people see as an entry into their imaginary world? To what extent can image analysis provide knowledge that contributes to safety issues? Commissioned by the Department of Counterterrorism, Radicalization and Extremism (CTER) of the Dutch National Police, the IVMV Foundation invited, in a comparative pilot study, twenty Dutch youngsters (10 with a Muslim background and 10 police students) to share their viewing experiences with five trailers (3 Hollywood, 1 Netflix, 1 not explicit violent ISIS video) that touched on the ISIS issue. This resulted in a research report and a film (in Dutch as well as in English) that was presented in November 2017 (De Mare et al. 2017a; De Mare 2017b). A remarkable result was that their viewing experiences and feelings showed a lot of similarity.

Het ontwikkelen van werkzame wetgeving vergt een beleidstheorie. Die theorie omvat een omschrijving van het probleem, een toeschrijving van het probleem aan oorzaken en een beschrijving van hoe wetgeving helpt om het probleem terug te dringen. Het Integraal Afwegingskader voor beleid en regelgeving (IAK) bevat nuttige vragen, maar er is extra aandacht nodig voor het expliciteren van veronderstelde oorzaken van de problematiek. Werkzame wetgeving is niet automatisch toekomstbestendig. Toekomstbestendigheid is het voorbereid zijn op onzekere toekomstige ontwikkelingen. Het ontwikkelen van toekomstbestendige wetgeving vergt daarom het expliciteren van onzekerheid over toekomstige ontwikkelingen, het toetsen van hoe wetgeving in verschillende omstandigheden werkt, en het maken van een keuze over hoe met onzekerheid om te gaan.

This article concerns an experiment involving three learning communities of professionals cooperating across institutional boundaries to address domestic violence cases in multiple complementary ways. Providers of social services interacted with law enforcement in a juridical context to achieve an integrated approach. This alliance indicates the potential for values-based Good Work based on safety, professional care, and compassionate treatment. Playing with time and capacity can be a strategy, and each professional can benefit from multiple viewpoints for recognising and anticipating patterns of domestic violence before it (re)occurs.
A lack of funding has suspended embedding this Good Work, slowing progress toward achieving long-term goals and making this interdisciplinary approach to assuring sustainable safety unavailable to prevent repeated outbreaks of domestic violence.

Met het wetsvoorstel voor de Wet bestuur en toezicht rechtspersonen wordt beoogd de kwaliteit van bestuur en toezicht bij verenigingen, coöperaties, onderlinge waarborgmaatschappijen en stichtingen te verbeteren. In dit artikel bespreken de auteurs kort enkele aspecten van het wetsvoorstel in het licht van de doelstelling en de bruikbaarheid in de praktijk.

Begin juni is het wetsvoorstel bestuur en toezicht rechtspersonen ingediend bij de Tweede Kamer. Dit wetsvoorstel beoogt de regeling voor bestuur en toezicht bij de verschillende soorten rechtspersonen aan te vullen en te verduidelijken. Dit zorgt vooral voor een aanscherping van het wettelijk kader bij de niet-commerciële vereniging en de stichting. Dus semipublieke sector: opgelet!

The External Monitor of Forensic Psychiatric Patients (EMT) aims to increase the knowledge of forensic psychiatric patients and the effectiveness of mandatory forensic treatment. In the EMT, five judicial organizations merged their anonymized digital data on (ex-)patients for research purposes. Data originated from the databases of the NIFP, DJI, AVT, 3RO and WODC. By merging this data, a larger part of the trajectory of a forensic psychiatric patient becomes known. Results show that it is possible to combine data from the digital databases of separate organizations for research and analysis purposes. To illustrate the opportunities of the use of merged data, an explorative study was conducted into a current subject. In this study, 218 ‘tbs-patients’ were included and several characteristics of patients of whom the mandatory forensic treatment has ended were compared with those of patients still under mandatory treatment. Suggestions are made for merging data files and for future research.

Some believe that the credibility of restorative justice can be increased if more attention is given to the quality of the mediator, as well as methods to select people with the right profile or by training. At first glance this seems a legitimate aim: mediation services should offer quality. Reflecting on practical experience and research into mediation between offenders and victims in Flanders, the author problematizes these assumptions. The quest for tangible quality to ensure ‘credibility’ refers to a neo-liberal approach aimed at reducing risks and promoting the client’s satisfaction. In this article the author confronts the apolitical approach of client satisfaction with alternative ideas about (restorative) justice. Ideally, the mediator is critical of established (legal) authorities and professional expertise. Mediation is political in nature, even if the mediator relies on neutrality. The mediator must be aware of his – inevitable – political stance and should be ready to be interrogated on this matter.

Handelt een appartementseigenaar in strijd met de redelijkheid en billijkheid als hij in lijn met zijn persoonlijke belang stemt? De kantonrechter oordeelde van wel. In de bijdrage wordt ingegaan op materieelrechtelijke en procesrechtelijke aspecten van besluitvorming en het aantasten van die besluitvorming binnen VvE’s.

This article is based on ethnographic research over recent years in eight Dutch police teams. It focuses on the othering process in which police officers define ‘crooks’ as the Other and chase, catch and arrest them. Catching crooks is perceived as an assignment as well as a game. Street cops construct detailed subcategories of the crook which influence their daily practices. They select crooks by recognition (the permanent suspects), by abnormalization (out of placeness) and by profiling (regardless of place). In addition to the discussion on ethnic profiling, we argue that profiling is a contextual practice. The contents of the profiles depend on the demographic characteristics of the district in which a police team operates. Interacting mediaframes of both the crook and the police reinforce the mutual caricatures and tense relationships.

Verschillende lidstaten, waaronder Nederland en Frankrijk, sluiten mannen die seksueel contact hebben (gehad) met mannen levenslang uit als bloeddonor. Het Hof van Justitie heeft zich op 29 april 2015 uitgesproken over deze permanente uitsluiting van MSM en heeft voorwaarden geformuleerd waaraan in dat geval moet zijn voldaan.
HvJ 29 april 2015, zaak C-528/13, Geoffrey Léger/Ministre des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes, en Établissement français du sang, ECLI:EU:C:2015:288

In april van dit jaar vond in Driebergen de jaarvergadering van de Vereniging voor Gezondheidsrecht plaats. Tijdens het inhoudelijke gedeelte lichtten Elies Steyger, Joris Rijken, Matthijs Vermaat, Emke Plomp en Tessa van den Ende hun bijdrage aan het preadvies ‘Op weg naar tien jaar nieuw zorgstelsel. Terug en vooruitblik’ toe. Op die manier ontstond een breed panorama van de stand van het zorgstelsel met aandacht voor het Europees recht, de positie van de zorgverzekeraars, de Wmo 2015, de winstuitkering in de zorg en de rol van de toezichthouder. Tijdens de paneldiscussie voorgezeten door Jaap Sijmons hadden de leden de gelegenheid over deze thema’s met de preadviseurs van gedachten te wisselen. Cathy van Beek sloot af met een voordracht waarin zij constateerde dat van de beoogde versterking van de rol van de patiënt onder het nieuwe stelsel (nog) weinig terecht was gekomen.

High crime rates among second-generation immigrants are usually attributed to the ethnic group’s social disorganisation and weak socio-economic position in the host society. According to the import theory, the causes of crime can however also be sought in their native countries or regions. Due to a lack of empirical data, this has rarely been tested, with Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands as exception. Ethnographic research among small groups of delinquent boys in Dutch cities suggests that the rural background or the character of the Rif area of its Moroccan immigrants may explain their high crime rate. In this article we examine whether this holds true when all young Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands are taken into account. Crime data from a Police Identification Service System (HKS) at the individual level are linked with personal data from the Social Statistical Database (SSB) of Statistics Netherlands, including their (parents’) regional descent. Logistic regression analysis shows that the current socio-economic position in the Netherlands is a strong predictor of criminal conduct, while the impact of geographic descent, directly or indirectly via socio-economic position in the Netherlands, is negligible. Based on this study, there is no reason to revise the common explanation of the immigrant-crime nexus.

The central question of this contribution is whether slavery was considered in the Netherlands at the time as something normal, an argument which is often heard in debates about this phenomenon today. This paper shows that during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, slavery was indeed something that happened far away from home, however, all the time voices could be heard in this country opposing at least the cruelties of the slave system, or even the basic incompatability of slavery and christianity. It even turned out to be a public problem with the hundreds of enslaved people who came over time with their owners from Suriname or the Dutch Antilles to this country, and after a while became free citizens, because in the Netherlands itself slavery was not allowed.
During the second part of the eighteenth century in literary and political Dutch circles the individual voices against (the cruelties of) slavery turned more or less into a choir. These opponents of the system were obviously influenced by and often fervent supporters of the Enlightenment and its ideals for mankind of freedom, equality and brotherhood. Eventually, however, in 1797 the revolutionary Dutch National Assembly in its first constitution voted against an article meant to abolish slave trade and slavery in the near future. It took more than two generations to finally settle this question in 1863.