Products, services, and innovations
Amendments for all entrepreneurs
Yet to come into effect (7)
USB-C mandatory for all portable devices
Effective date: 28 december 2024
Do you manufacture, import, or sell electronic devices? Small and medium-sized electronic devices that can be charged via a wired connection must have a USB Type-C port. USB-C is the mandatory...
Ban on cash payments over €3,000
Effective date: 31 maart 2025
Do you often pay large amounts in banknotes? The government intends to ban cash payments for amounts of over €3,000. This ban applies to traders (professional or commercial buyers and vendors of...
European Accessibility Act for products and services
Effective date: 28 juni 2025
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is an EU directive (EU 2019/882) that aims to improve accessibility to products and services. The EAA requires that products and services are accessible to persons...
Security of smart devices must be improved
Effective date: 1 augustus 2025
Do you manufacture or sell smart devices? There will be minimum requirements to ensure the digital security of devices connected to the internet – Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These new rules...
European Data Act for fairer access to and use of data
Effective date: 12 september 2025
The goal of the European Data Act is to offer businesses, citizens, and governments more options to use and share data. These data are currently only or mainly available to the manufacturers of the...
Plain packaging for vapes and cigars
Effective date: not yet known
Do you sell cigars and e-cigarettes (vapes)? Soon these products will have to be sold in neutral packaging. This plain packaging requirement already applies to cigarettes and rolling tobacco since...
Stricter rules for entrepreneurial governments
Effective date: not yet known
Governments that engage in economic activities that can also be carried out by companies will be faced with stricter rules. Entrepreneurial governments must provide stronger substantiation for their...
Already in effect (3)
GPSR: new rules for product safety
Effective date: 13 december 2024
Do you sell non-food consumer products in the EU and Northern Ireland? You must comply with new product safety rules under the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). The GPSR protects EU consumers...
Supermarkets may no longer sell cigarettes
Effective date: 1 juli 2024
Do you own or run a supermarket? Sales of tobacco products and vapes (e-cigarettes) is banned from supermarkets. The Dutch Cabinet wants to reduce the number of outlets selling tobacco. In 2024 the...
More open data available for reuse
Effective date: 19 juni 2024
Do you work with open data? More organisations must make open data available for reuse. Most government organisations already should make open data available for reuse. But now the following...
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