Unlike France or Germany, there are no special administrative courts of first instance in the Netherlands, but regular courts have an administrative " chamber " which specializes in administrative appeals.

The Netherlands has been most advanced in adopting a census using administrative data.

In 1962 the United States pressured the Netherlands into secret talks with Indonesia which in August 1962 produced the New York Agreement, and Indonesia assumed administrative responsibility for West Irian on 1 May 1963.

* Public body ( the general denomination for administrative divisions in the Netherlands )

An administrative fine, the first of its kind in Europe, has been issued by the Independent Authority of Posts and Telecommunications ( OPTA ) from the Netherlands.

In 1898 the Netherlands Indies government decided to establish administrative posts in Fakfak and Manokwari, followed by Merauke in 1902.

This was not a completely new idea, but it was contrary to the administrative practice in the Netherlands Indies until then and contrary to the ideas of the nationalists, who wanted a centralist Indonesia.

Arrondissement (; ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, certain other Francophone countries, and the Netherlands.

As the administrative law of the Netherlands is so complex, it was deemed impossible to incorporate it in a single code, but its general rules must be covered in a general code ( Subarticle 2 ) as has indeed gradually been done since the nineties, be it with great difficulty.

It was formed in January 2005 as part of a large-scale administrative reorganisation in the Netherlands ( gemeentelijke herindeling ).

Emmeloord is the administrative center of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Netherlands.

The Baan Corporation was created by Jan Baan in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands, to provide financial and administrative consulting services.

Upon Belgium becoming an independent state from the Netherlands, there was an ( administrative ) reaction against the Dutch and their language.

The Eau Rouge has been a border river for several periods in its existence, including an administrative boundary under the Roman Empire between Cologne and Tongeren, and the state border between The Netherlands and Prussia from 1815 to 1839 and then between Belgium and Prussia from 1839 to 1919.

Under the Habsburgs, the Netherlands were organised into a single administrative unit, and in the 16th and 17th centuries the Northern Netherlands gained independence from Spain as the Dutch Republic.

The subsequently issued great privilege met a lot of these demands ( which included that Dutch, not French, should be the administrative language in the Dutch-speaking provinces and that the States General had the right to hold meetings without the monarch's permission or presence ) and despite the fact that the overall tenure of the document ( which was declared void by her son, and successor, Philip IV ) aimed for more autonomy for the counties and duchies, the fact that all fiefs presented their demands together, rather than separately, are evidence that by this time a sense of common interest was emerging among the provinces of the Netherlands.

The growth of organised cycle racing led to the development of national administrative bodies, in Britain in 1878, France 1881, the Netherlands 1883, Germany 1884 and Sweden 1900.

Influenced by the Enlightenment, Emperor Joseph II, who became sole ruler of the Habsburg lands after Maria-Theresa ’ s death in 1780, decreed a series of large-scale reforms in the Austrian Netherlands designed to radically modernize and centralize the political, judicial and administrative system.

The original colony of New Netherlands was settled by the Dutch and the law was also Dutch.

For example in the Netherlands, the law assumes the stronger participant ( e. g. a car driver ) is liable in the case of an accident with a weaker participant ( e. g. a cyclist ) unless it can be proved that the cyclist's behavior could not have been expected.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

In South Africa, the right to armorial bearings is also determined by Roman Dutch law, due to its origins as a 17th-century colony of the Netherlands.

* 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.

Hence, in the Netherlands, all treaties and the orders of international organizations are effective without any action being required to convert international into municipal law.

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

The foreign policy of the Netherlands is based on four basic commitments: to the Atlantic cooperation, to European integration, to international development and to international law.

The liberal drug policy of the authorities in The Netherlands especially led to problems in " border hot spots " that attracted " drug tourism " as well as trafficking and related law enforcement problems in towns like Enschede in the East and Terneuzen, Venlo, Maastricht and Heerlen in the South.

* 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.

Squatting in the Netherlands became illegal and punishable when a decree was sent out that the law would be enforced from the first of October.

On October 1, 2010, squatting was finally outlawed in The Netherlands after the Squatting Ban Bill was passed into law by both houses of Parliament.

The Netherlands passed its law in 1956.

It was adopted in many countries occupied by the French during the Napoleonic Wars, and thus formed the basis of the private law systems of Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal ( and their former colonies ), and Poland ( 1808 – 1946 ).

In principle, national referendums in the Netherlands are not possible by law.

" village ") is usually applied to settlements no larger than 20, 000, though there's no official law regarding status of settlements in the Netherlands.

After the fall of Napoleon, not only was Napoleonic Code retained by many such countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, but has also been used as the basis of certain parts of law outside Europe including the Dominican Republic, the US state of Louisiana and the Canadian province of Quebec.

The Constitution of the Netherlands is the fundamental law of the European territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The first constitution of the Netherlands as a whole, in the sense of a fundamental law which applied to all its provinces and cities, is the 1579 constitution, which established the confederal republic of the Seven United Provinces.

The affirmation needs sign and ministerial countersign but also the older Royal Order has to be signed and countersigned, ordering to publish the law in a special publication, the Staatsblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ( Bulletin of Acts, Orders and Decrees of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, also called Bulletin of Acts and Decrees ).

Law may regulate exceptions to the provisions of Article 113 in case of trials held outside of the European territory of the Netherlands or of proceedings of martial law ; delegation is possible ( Subarticle 4 ).

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Presently, six Member States ( Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom ) have adopted such provisions.

Because of the provisions of the Versailles treaty, many of the planes were initially produced in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, or Japan, but resumed work at its Friedrichshafen and other German factories following the rise of the Nazi regime.

To ensure same-sex couples enjoy similar rights, the provisions of the Dutch civil code ( rather than the civil code for the Caribbean Netherlands ) applied for marriages performed outside the islands from 1 January 2011.

Conservatives such as Joe Scarborough and Robert H. Knight accused Levine of promoting pedophilia for her suggestion that the US adopt statutory rape laws similar to those in effect at that time in The Netherlands ( The Netherlands has since repealed those provisions ).

Countries that have special provisions for minorities include Canada, China, Ethiopia, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Croatia, and the United Kingdom.

As the Netherlands Antilles, they were initially specifically excluded from all association with the EEC by reason of a protocol attached to the Treaty of Rome, allowing the Netherlands to ratify on behalf of the Netherlands and Netherlands New Guinea only, which it subsequently did .< ref name =" protocol-eec "> TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EEC-PROTOCOL ON THE APPLICATION OF THE TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY TO THE NON-EUROPEAN PARTS OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS < p >< p >, at the time of signature of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, to define the scope of the provisions of Article 227 of this Treaty in respect of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ,< p > upon the following provisions, which shall be annexed to this Treaty :< p > The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, by reason of the constitutional structure of the Kingdom resulting from the Statute of 29 December 1954, shall, by way of derogation from Article 227, be entitled to ratify the Treaty on behalf of the Kingdom in Europe and Netherlands New Guinea only .< p > Done at Rome this twenty-fifth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven .< p > Source Following the entry into force of the Convention on the association of the Netherlands Antilles with the European Economic Community on 1 October 1964, however, the Netherlands Antilles were counted as overseas territories.