Rules and regulations for all entrepreneurs
Do you work with F-gases (synthetic refrigerants) the Netherlands? You must have the right certificates. You deal with F-gases if you work on for instance: cooling, air-conditioning, and heat-pump...
The information in this article may change after 1 January 2024 Some of the information on this page may change after the Environment and Planning Act comes into effect on 1 January 2024. It will be...
For activities near water you may need to apply for an environment and planning permit (omgevingsvergunning) for water activities (previously a water permit). In some cases you only need to submit a...
With an environmental zone (low emission zone), Dutch municipalities can exclude particular types of cars, vans, and trucks from specific areas. The goal is to improve local air quality. All...
Are you the holder of an installation (structure or facility) for groundwater extraction (grondwateronttrekking)? For instance to use the water for agricultural crops or to work dry when you carry out...
You must apply for a groundwater extraction permit (grondwateronttrekkingsvergunning) to the provincial authority: if you extract groundwater for industrial processes measuring more than 150,000 m3...
Do you want to carry out construction work in an area of special value? For example, do you want to build roads, dig or drain ditches, plant or cut down trees, or raise or excavate soil in such an...
What is Legionella? Legionella is a bacterium that can cause an infection of the airways called legionellosis, or Legionnaires’ disease. Legionella bacteria may grow in water with a temperature...
Do you own or run an outdoor shooting range or a clay pigeon range? You must follow the rules to prevent soil contamination at the shooting range. You must also make a notification through the online...
With the water authority taxes (waterschapsbelasting, in Dutch) the regional water authority (waterschap, in Dutch) pays for the construction and maintenance of for example dikes, embankments, ditches...
Reporting soil contamination and degradation Do you work with substances that may pollute or contaminate the soil? If so, you must report this to the online service counter Omgevingsloket (in Dutch)....
Soil remediation Are you going to remediate the soil? For example, because you want to build on contaminated land and you are therefore obliged to remediate the soil. Or you want to voluntarily...
Do you own or use a business property in the Netherlands that is connected to the municipal sewerage system? Depending on the municipality where your business property is located, you may have to pay...
Anyone who uses tap water in the Netherlands, pays a tap water tax (belasting op leidingwater, BoL). This tax is an environmental tax. The authorities calculate the tax rate (in Dutch) per cubic meter...
Do you want to use animal manure, sewage sludge, or other types of manure on agricultural land in the Netherlands? Then you have to comply with several rules. Conditions apply to, for example, the...