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On 11 July 2023, the Dutch Senate (Eerste Kamer) adopted a bill on the criminalisation of obtaining, distributing or otherwise making available personal data for the purpose of intimidation (strafbaarstelling gebruik persoonsgegevens voor intimiderende doeleinden), an activity known as “doxing”. This is where personal data, such as addresses and phone numbers, as well as private information about family members, is distributed online so that it can be used to intimidate someone, and journalists are often victims. Notably, recent Dutch government measures introduced to protect the safety...

The Digital Services Act Implementation Bill was published on 14 July 2023. It provides for the national implementation in the Netherlands of the EU’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which entered into force in late 2022 (see, for example, IRIS 2023-3:1/18 and IRIS 2023-5:1/2). Crucially, the Bill designates the Autoriteit Consument & Markt (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets – ACM) as the national Digital Services Coordinator in the Netherlands under the DSA. In addition, the bill designates the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch Data Protection Authority –...

On 12 July 2023, the Board of Directors of the Stichting Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (Dutch Public Broadcasting Foundation – NPO) issued a high-profile decision, upholding a financial sanction imposed on the Dutch broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland (ON). This follows a formal request made by the NPO’s Board of Directors in April 2023 asking the Secretary of State for Culture and Media to withdraw the provisional recognition of the broadcaster ON, having already imposed three separate fines on the broadcaster, including a EUR 131 000 fine in April 2023 for “systemic violation”...

On 6 June 2023, the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) passed a Bill, which will amend the Media Act (Mediawet) 2008, and require major streaming platforms with an annual turnover in the Netherlands of more than EUR 10 million to invest 5% of that turnover in Dutch productions. The State Secretary for Culture and Media (Staatssecretaris Cultuur en Media) introduced the Bill in July 2022, and originally required major streaming platformswith an annual turnover in the Netherlands of more than EUR 30 million to invest 4.5% of their turnover in Dutch productions (see IRIS 2022-8/16). The Bill...

On 1 July 2023, a new ban on “untargeted” online gambling advertising will come into effect, under the Decree on untargeted advertising of online games of chance. Notably, the new Decree bans online gambling advertising via broadcasting services under the Mediawet (Media Act) , in newspapers, magazines or other printed, publicly available means of communication, and in public spaces. Importantly, however, online gambling licence holders will still be permitted to engage in “targeted” advertising via the Internet or via on-demand media services under the Media Act, where...