Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
1024px-Woman_smoking_a_cigarette
- Credit: Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Oxfordian Kissuth
Business
Business owner
Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority
fine
hospitality industry
NVWA
smoking ban
Urk
warning
Zwartewaterland
Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 12:33
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Smoking ban fines jump 14 percent nationwide

Business owners in the hospitality industry received 1,578 fines from the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) last year for failing to comply with the national smoking ban. The number of fines increased by 191 from the previous year, and written warnings jumped from 379 in 2013 to 619 last year, NU reports.  All together, NVWA received 1.4 million euros from the distributed fines. However, in 136 municipalities, every inspected location abided the rules. Urk was the municipality with the most fines, where every hundred inspections netted 22 violations. Zwartewaterland did not do well either with 13 penalties for hundred locations.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Health Council wants national approach to eating disorders
  • Over 60% of first wave Long Covid patients declared medically unfit to work
  • Farmers burning hay bales on highways with more nitrogen policy protests expected
  • Health Min. wants to expand euthanasia access to terminally ill children under 12
  • Woman, 73, killed in Zeeland tornado
  • Gymnast Sanne Wevers quits Dutch national team after unspecified “incident”

Top stories

  • Farmers burning hay bales on highways with more nitrogen policy protests expected
  • Health Min. wants to expand euthanasia access to terminally ill children under 12
  • Woman, 73, killed in Zeeland tornado
  • Tornado leaves one dead, ten hurt in Zeeland community
  • RIVM withheld concerns over overtaxed hospitals at start of pandemic: report
  • No buses in Utrecht, Amersfoort as regional public transport workers strike

© 2012-2022, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content