One-year notification

A foreign business can make use of the one-year notification under the following conditions:

Small business

A foreign business can make use of the one-year notification if it:

• employs 1 to 9 employees;
• is based within a 100-kilometre radius of the Dutch border;
• had at least 3 postings in the Netherlands in the preceding calendar year or made a valid notification in the preceding calendar year; and
• is registered in the trade register, or a similar register in neighbouring countries.

A foreign business cannot use the one-year notification if it works in the construction sector, an employment agency, the temporary employment sector or personnel management.
 

Self-employed persons

A self-employed person can make use of the one-year notification if they:

• work in a sector to which the duty to notify applies;
• are based within a 100-kilometre radius of the Dutch border;
• had at least 3 postings in the Netherlands in the preceding calendar year or made a valid notification in the preceding calendar year; and are registered in the trade register, or a similar register in a neighbouring country.

A self-employed person cannot use the one-year notification if they work in the construction sector, an employment agency, the temporary employment sector or personnel management.

Freight transport by road

A foreign business or self-employed person can use a one-year notification if they work in the freight transport by road sector (General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities within the European Communities group H 49.4). This also applies if they provide services on behalf of a client or company based in the Netherlands.

Foreign businesses or self-employed persons can find the sector under which their work is defined on the website of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.