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As of 1 August 2023, the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition will be merged into the National Public Health Center. The resulting new authority will be called the National Public Health and Pharmaceutical Center (NNGYK).
The new authority will be headed by the Chief Medical Officer, and in terms of administrative hierarchy, the NNGYK will be under the supervision of the Minister of the Interior, acting in the capacity of Minister responsible for Health.

On 18 July 2023, the Dutch government published draft legislation to implement the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which was adopted on 14 December 2022 by the EU. The government has invited stakeholders and other interested parties to provide feedback on the draft bill before 10 September 2023. The draft bill requires certain companies to report on sustainability issues and addresses the audit requirements for auditors and accounting firms for the corporate sustainability report. It also expands the reporting obligations for listed companies.

In the Official Journal of 13 June 2023, the Decree of the Ministry of Health dated 12 April 2023 governing the national administrative procedures for the submission of clinical investigation applications for devices that are not CE-marked and CE-marked but used outside their intended use and the Decree of the Ministry of Health dated 12 April 2023 governing the national administrative procedures for the submission of clinical investigation applications for CE-marked devices used within their intended use were published. These decrees are provided for in article 16, paragraphs 2 and 3 of Legislative Decree No. 137/2022 issued to bring national legislation in compliance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2017/745.