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1. Rural police teams respond slightly faster than urban police teams

   On average, rural police teams respond slightly faster to reports of crimes that are likely to be solved than their counterparts ...

   News item | 19-12-2017 | 00:00

2. Growing audit gap in banking supervision

   President of the German and Dutch supreme audit institutions: "Worrying development". The supreme audit institutions of five ...

   News item | 14-12-2017 | 06:00

3. Gift tax exemption for owner-occupied homes

   About three-quarters of the people in the Netherlands who were gifted money in 2013 and 2014 to spend on their homes used it to ...

   News item | 06-12-2017 | 15:30

4. Cornelis van der Werf sworn in as the Court of Audit’s new Secretary-General

   Cornelis van der Werf was sworn in as the Netherlands Court of Audit’s new Secretary-General at an extraordinary Board meeting ...

   News item | 04-12-2017 | 11:30

5. Court of Audit appoints Ellen Verolme as new director

   The Netherlands Court of Audit has appointed Ellen Verolme as a director with effect from 1 January 2018. She currently holds the ...

   News item | 14-11-2017 | 13:30

6. More former suspects receiving damages after short stay in police cells

   An audit by the Netherlands Court of Audit into the practice of pre-trial detention in the Netherlands has found that an ever ...

   News item | 14-11-2017 | 06:00

7. Netherlands Court of Audit appoints new director, Willemijn van Helden

   The Netherlands Court of Audit has appointed Willemijn van Helden as a director with effect from 1 January 2018. She is currently ...

   News item | 30-10-2017 | 16:00

8. Credit crisis figures updated

   The Netherlands Court of Audit has updated data on various government measures still being implemented in the wake of the credit ...

   News item | 25-10-2017 | 13:00

9. Report on the modernisation of the Tax and Customs Administration

   The Netherlands Court of Audit published an audit report entitled State of the Tax and Customs Administration’s Investment Agenda ...

   News item | 11-10-2017 | 15:00

10. DNB: strict supervision of medium-sized and small banks

    De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB, the Dutch central bank) has set high capital requirements for the 30 or so medium-sized and small ...

    News item | 27-09-2017 | 18:00