> Dutch law prohibits the sale of fireworks, except for the three days before New Year`s Eve (29-31 December). During this time, fireworks are legal between 6 p.m. on Dec. 31 and 2 a.m. on Jan. 1 — when a buying and demolition frenzy inevitably begins. There are three other legal vehicles in which a business can be developed, but which are not regulated in Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code. Business partnerships such as a partnership (“maatschap”), a partnership (“vennootschap onder firma”) and a tacit partnership (“vennootschap sponsor”) are historically based on a contract between the cooperation partners and are therefore considered a special agreement for which § 7a of the Dutch Civil Code and the Commercial Code provides for special legal provisions. In the near future, these legal provisions will be revised and included in Book 7 of the Dutch Civil Code, which deals with certain agreements. > prostitution is legal, which also means that Dutch law requires all workers to pay taxes equally in the Netherlands. The Constitution provides the framework for the organisation of the Dutch State and forms the basis for legislation. Treaties between the Netherlands and other States are an important source of law.
Article 93 of the Constitution provides that the provisions of treaties and decisions of international institutions may have direct effect in the Dutch legal order; In this case, these provisions take precedence over Netherlands law. The legal measures in force in the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall not apply if they are incompatible with these provisions. Therefore, EU rules set out in treaties, regulations and directives are an important source of law in the Netherlands. It should be noted, however, that the law not only claims that a legal person is identical to a natural person, but that such retention is a mere fact under civil law. Since the law is nothing more than a set of rules of conduct, it may stipulate that a legal person is treated in the same way as a natural person, for example in the case of property and legal acts, just as it may indicate that a natural person registered in the public registers of immovable property is considered to be the owner of a house, is legally considered the owner of that home, including all related legal rights and obligations. All private law claims must be submitted in the first instance to the District Court. There are 19 such courts in the Netherlands, each with its own judicial district, known as a `district`. Cases before the District Court are dealt with only by a District Judge.
Therefore, this judge himself decides how the proceedings will end. Since the district court is not divided into specialized courts, this means that this judge must have a very thorough knowledge of almost all civil and commercial matters. In practice, of course, this is not the case, because it is impossible. Fortunately, a kind of specialization has emerged. In the hierarchy of legal norms, a contract is the most important regulation. It takes precedence over parliamentary laws and even the Dutch constitution. A contract removes the contradictory law. It would be a serious obstacle for the Dutch central government to legislate itself if the scope of most treaties were not limited to international legal situations and relations. The Netherlands is, inter alia, a party to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 11 April 1980 (CISG). However, this Convention shall apply only to contracts for the sale of goods concluded between parties having their registered office in different States. In the Netherlands, however, the vast majority of sales contracts are concluded between Dutch residents and/or companies with no international element. This means that only the provisions of the Dutch Civil Code relating to sales contracts apply to these contracts.
The Vienna Convention (CISG) therefore has no bearing on these purely national agreements. The scope of application of other treaties is also generally limited to cross-border situations. And where appropriate, they often refer to the national law of one of the Contracting States.