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The Netherlands and the UK sign a new double tax treaty

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Netherlands, United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

On 26 September 2008, The Netherlands and the UK signed a new double tax treaty ('DTT') and protocol, which is intended to replace the current DTT

AFM publishes guideline on appropriate commissions at investment firms and financial services providers

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • August 31 2009

Rules with respect to inducements or suitable commissions were introduced when the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) was implemented in the FMSA

Government view of future financial sector

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • August 31 2009

The Ministry of Finance has published the Cabinet view of the future of the financial sector (in Dutch

Act implementing the General Administrative Law Act (Fourth Tranche) and Act amending the Penalty System under Financial Legislation have entered into force

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On 1 July 2009, the Fourth Tranche of the General Administrative Law Act (Vierde tranche Awb), the Act implementing the General Administrative Law Act (Fourth Tranche) (Wet wijziging boetestelsel financiƫle sector) and the Decree amending the General Administrative Law Act (Fourth Tranche) entered into force

Response of AFM and DNB to Maas report

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • August 31 2009

In April 2009, the Advice Committee on the Future of Banks headed by Mr Cees Maas presented its report "Towards repairing trust" (in Dutch), in which it made various recommendations on improving the performance of the Dutch banking sector

Notifications of data security breaches - the Netherlands

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Netherlands
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  • February 1 2007

Dutch law does not explicitly require network operators and Internet Service Providers to notify national regulatory authorities and their customers of any security breach

Current status of amendment of commission scheme

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • August 31 2009

In September 2008, the Minster of Finance Bos announced a set of measures intended to harmonise rules in the field of transparency of provisions and costs

Amendment of Financial Markets Act 2010 submitted

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • August 31 2009

Minister of Finance Bos has submitted the legislative bill (in Dutch) to amend the FMSA and a number of other laws to the Second Chamber of Parliament

FATF news

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • August 31 2009

As of 1 July 2009, a Netherlands official will hold the one-year Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body whose purpose is policy-making to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Report on liability of financial regulators

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • August 31 2009

The Ministry of Finance requested the Molengraaf Institute for Private Law of the University of Utrecht to investigate the issue of whether different national liability regimes could give rise to additional risks for the Netherlands Authority on the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiƫle Markten, AFM) and DNB and cause negative consequences to the financial sector in the Netherlands