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DECLARING GENERALLY BINDING COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS PART I: GUARDIANS AND GUARDIANS What is a collective bargaining agreement (CAO)? A collective bargaining agreement (CAO) can be declared generally binding (CAO). If a CBA is declared a CBA, it becomes mandatory in the relevant sector. The precise scope is described in the CBA itself, usually in… Read more

The Minister has relaxed the PFAS standard, effective November 29th. See the table below: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijksoverheid/documenten/kamerstukken/2019/11/29/aanpassing-tijdelijk-handelingskader-pfas/aanpassing-tijdelijk-handelingskader-pfas.pdf Compared to the situation at the time of our recent presentations to Bouwend Nederland – see...

UBO register: game changer. On November 26, 2019, Onno Cusell and Dennis Evertsz, representing Wintertaling, along with Tony de Bree, gave a presentation on the upcoming UBO legislation and regulations. The presentation focused on the content of the UBO register, the privacy of individuals and companies included in it, and the extent to which companies must go in identifying and verifying their customers. UBO...

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On August 22, 2019, the preliminary draft of the Act amending the dispute settlement procedure and clarifying the admissibility requirements for the inquiry procedure was published. The preliminary draft aims to make the dispute settlement procedure more effective and to clarify the conditions for access to the inquiry procedure. The online consultation on this bill was open until November 22, 2019. On behalf of...

Wintertaling partner of GO!-NH On November 19, 2019, Wintertaling, together with Leapfunder, presented a presentation and workshop on the legal and economic aspects of startups and financing for the fourth time, as part of the GO!-NH accelerator program. GO!-NH is a program of the province of North Holland in which 13 startups and spin-offs are supported for three months through training, tools, and...

Wilfred Groustra and Bas van Vliet will be panelists at the Infra Innovation Market Day organized by Bouwend Nederland Regio Noord on Thursday, November 21st. https://www.bouwendnederland.nl/actueel/bijeenkomsten/6539/infra-innovatie-marktdag https://www.building.nl/nieuws/infra-innovatiemarktdag-op-21-november Wilfred Groustra will be responsible for the questions and statements about the PFAS problem. Bas...

Security vs. Privacy? A practical guide to the upcoming UBO regulations. The Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) register will be introduced on January 10, 2020. What does this entail? What does it mean for the privacy of individuals and companies included in this register (and who will be included)? And how far should a company go with identifying and verifying its customers? On November 26, 2020,...

Blog Case Law on Temporary Employment Contracts (Articles 7:690 and 7:691 of the Dutch Civil Code). Wintertaling Employment Law focuses its practice on virtually all aspects of flexible employment contracts: the distinction between temporary employment/payroll contracts and assignment contracts, aspects of qualifying as employers, the implications of the pay ratio requirement, and so on.

Paula Schouten has been a candidate civil-law notary at Wintertaling in Amsterdam since 2016. Until then, her life revolved around sports. She was an avid rugby player for nine years, five of which she played professionally. Click here for the full article.

Administrative and civil law aspects: The media are full of reports about the hundreds of projects that have been canceled as a result of the Council of State's rulings on the Nitrogen Action Programme (PAS) and, equally urgently, regulations regarding PFAS. This Wintertaling workshop will examine the Council of State's PAS rulings and the PFAS bottlenecks from two perspectives: – the administrative...

SolarCreed wins FMO's 2019 Finture Solutions Challenge. SolarCreed is one of the winners of FMO's 2019 Finture Solutions Challenge. Finture Solutions focuses on scaling up start-ups that have a positive impact in emerging markets. SolarCreed's solutions support food production for farmers in Nigeria, thus contributing to the food security of local...

The proposal for a Private Composition Scheme Act (WHOA), submitted on July 5, 2019, allows a company threatened with insolvency to impose a compulsory composition on its creditors and shareholders, outside of suspension of payments and bankruptcy proceedings. The WHOA proposal is inspired by the British Scheme of Arrangement and the American Chapter 11 procedure.

Presentation WAB by Wilfred Groustra and Jennifer Horsten

Sympower Raises €3 Million in Series A Financing Round. Sympower, an international scale-up in the energy transition, has raised €3 million in a Series A financing round from Dutch investment funds Social Impact Ventures and Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH), existing investors, and its own team. The investment will finance international growth...