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This chapter presents the Water, Land and Dijken Association which is composed of farmers and civilians who develop tailor-made conservation practices for biodiversity (grassland birds) and landscape. Following a brief description of the case study,...
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This chapter on the Netherlands outlines how the governance framework functions from a national perspective led by the Ministry of Safety and Justice and through a decentralised structure involving a myriad of stakeholders. The methodology presented...
SMEs with up to 250 employees comprised 99.8% of enterprises and employed around 95% of the labour force in 2010. A total of 917 250 non-employer firms were active in the country as of 2012.
SMEs comprised 99.6 % of enterprises and employed 68 % of the labour force in 2010.
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In the Netherlands, hospital waiting times increased during the 1990s as a result of the introduction of fixed budgets and capacity constraints for specialists, complementing the fixed global hospital budgets already introduced in the 1980s. Though ...
SMEs comprise 99.6% of enterprises in the Netherlands and employ 68% of the labour force. The Netherlands does not have a definition of SMEs that is applicable to all situations. The national definition conforms to the EU definition of less than 250 ...
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In 2010, the Netherlands was the sixth largest donor, supplying 4.9% of DAC members’ total ODA (all of which is provided in the form of grants). The Netherlands’ net ODA was USD 6.35 billion, an increase of 2.2% in real terms over 2009. Dutch ODA as ...
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A major programme considered very successful in the Netherlands is the so-called Innovation Voucher scheme. SMEs are provided with a voucher, which they can “cash in” with a technology or innovation provider of their choice. The scheme is intended ...
In 2007, the Dutch fisheries sector experienced a decrease in quota for its main species, sole and plaice. With increasing fuel prices, this had an overall negative impact on the Dutch marine fisheries sector. An additional consequence is that the ...
Economic concentration in the Netherlands is not significantly concentrated in comparison to OECD countries. According to the index of geographic concentration the Netherland’s economy is the third lowest concentrated among OECD countries. In fact ...
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Around 95% of Dutch rents are regulated, accounting for almost 44% of the housing market. In 2004, the government proposed reducing the share of regulated rents in stages. Although the rent bill eventually passed the lower house of the ...
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The Netherlands’ disability insurance system has long been recognized as among the most generous in the world. A major reform of the system was agreed by the government and the social partners in the early 2000s and took effect on 1 January 2006 ...
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The Netherlands’ resource management and conservation policy is carried out in accordance with the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union. The legal basis is the complete set of rules and regulations as agreed by the Council of Fisheries ...
The Netherlands is among the OECD leaders in knowledge creation: it ranked fifth in scientific publications per capita in 2005 and its publications were third in terms of prominence. It also ranked fifth in terms of triadic patenting per capita ...
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According to the TSA in 2006, the added value of tourism was EUR 13.6 billion, or 2.9% of GDP (Table 3.72). In 2002, TSA data showed that there were some 395 000 employees in the tourism sector, 4.1% of the employed labour force at the time. In ...
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The period 2001-02 was marked by Common Fisheries Policy reform in the European Union. A new Common Fisheries Policy is effective as of 2003. Dutch fisheries policy is implemented in the context of the European Unions Common Fisheries Policy.
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The Dutch government’s steering philosophy in education has combined decentralisation and more autonomy for schools, with a greater influence of the stakeholders – parents, students and the local community. Innovation means that schools have the ...
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