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The government as a shareholder

In preparation
Woman looking across the trading floor at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange Photo: ANP/ Hollandse Hoogte / Ramon van Flymen
Expected in the summer of 2025

How can – and to what extent should – the government influence existing and possible new state-owned enterprises in view of the major challenges relating to the physical environment and infrastructure?

Judging the Right Balance

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Cover photo advisory report Judging the Right Balance: Juridification in the Living Environment Photo: ANP /Hollandse Hoogte - Peter Hilz
26th of June 2024

Is it the legislature, the administration, or the courts that determine policy on the environment? Various court cases on environmental issues show that the task of safeguarding the rule of law is becoming too one-sidedly vested in the courts.

Meaningful government

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Cover photo advisory report Meaningful government Photo: Freepik / Freepik.com
9th of July 2024

How can central government ensure that decision-making promotes 'wellbeing', in other words all factors that determine wellbeing?

Fourth term (2024-2028) of the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli) officially started

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Council members and junior council members of the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli) Photo: Rob ter Bekke
1 August 2024

The fourth term (2024-2028) of the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli) had its official start on 1 August 2024. Dr Jan Jacob van Dijk has been appointed chair of the Rli. Meet the council members and junior council members.

Firm Foundations

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Two construction workers are renovating the foundations in a house. Photo: ANP/ Wilbert Bijzitter
29th of February 2024

Throughout the Netherlands, many buildings have damage to their foundations. However, the lack of precise information for each building means that the problem has long failed to be tackled.

Jan Jacob van Dijk appointed new chairman of Council for the Environment and Infrastructure

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Jan Jacob van Dijk will become the new chairman of the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli).
16 February 2024

16 February 2024 – The Council of Ministers approved his appointment at the proposal of the caretaker Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, Mark Harbers. Van Dijk succeeds Jan Jaap de Graeff, whose term of office is expiring. The appointment will apply for the Rli's fourth Council term (2024-2028) and will take effect on 1 August 2024.

Work Programme for 2024-2025 adopted

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illustration of cogwheels that interlock with drawings of agriculture, infrastructure, housing, consultation, transport, energy
11 March 2024

The Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW), Mark Harbers, submitted the Council's Work Programme for 2024-2025 to the Dutch House of Representatives on 20 December 2023, doing so also on behalf of the Ministers of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), Economic Affairs and Climate (EZK), Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), and Climate and Energy, and the State Secretaries for IenW and Kingdom Relations and Digitalisation (K&D).

Sustainable construction

In preparation
Timber building under construction Photo: Mediatheek Rijksoverheid / Tineke Dijkstra
Expected in June 2025

How can the government create the right conditions for a transition to the use of sustainable materials for housebuilding?