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College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven: published decisions
In 2025, College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal) published 688 decisions on rechtspraak.nl, 28% fewer than in 2024. That is 1.1% of the 64,124 decisions published by the 19 courts covered here. Of the court's decisions, each carries the administrative-law label. These counts describe published case law, not the court's caseload.
- Published decisions in 2025688−28% over one year
- Share of the Dutch total1.1%of the 64,124 decisions of the 19 courts
- Administrative law100%of its decisions; civil law: 0%
- Since 2013+16%change in published decisions, 2013-2025
Decisions year by year
The chart follows the number of decisions of College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven published on rechtspraak.nl, year by year since 2013, the first year of the current court map. The count measures what is published, not the number of cases the court handled.
In 2025, College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven published 688 decisions, 28% fewer than in 2024. This is 1.1% of the 64,124 decisions published by the 19 courts, against 2.5% in 2013. Over the period, the court's yearly count of published decisions went from 595 in 2013 to 688 in 2025 (+16%). The yearly count ranged from 449 in 2015 to 1,094 in 2021.
| Year | Decisions | Change | Share of the 19 courts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 595 | – | 2.5% |
| 2014 | 491 | −17% | 2% |
| 2015 | 449 | −9% | 1.8% |
| 2016 | 453 | +1% | 1.8% |
| 2017 | 503 | +11% | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 690 | +37% | 2.5% |
| 2019 | 727 | +5% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | 1,032 | +42% | 2.8% |
| 2021 | 1,094 | +6% | 2.6% |
| 2022 | 651 | −40% | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 744 | +14% | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 950 | +28% | 1.7% |
| 2025 | 688 | −28% | 1.1% |
Published decisions only: the series reflects what the court publishes as well as what it decides. Series start in 2013, the first year of the current court map.
Areas of law
Each decision published on rechtspraak.nl carries area-of-law labels: broad groups (administrative law, civil law, public international law) and detailed areas. The table counts the decisions of College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven that carry each label in 2025. A decision can carry several labels and some carry only a broad one, so the detailed areas do not add up to their group.
Of the 688 decisions published in 2025, each carries the administrative-law label. No detailed area label is attached to the decisions of this court in the data: the broad groups are the finest breakdown available.
| Area of law | Decisions 2025 | Share of the court | Change | Share of all decisions with this label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative law | 688 | 100% | −28% | 1.8% |
A decision can carry several area labels and some carry only a broad one: counts of different areas cannot be added together.
Place in the court system
The Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal is the highest administrative court for economic regulation. Its published decisions are set beside those of the other highest courts below.
It hears appeals against rulings of the district courts in economic regulation and, in some matters, rules as the only court. Its rulings cannot be appealed to another Dutch court. In 2025, the 4 highest courts published 9,122 decisions in all, of which 688 by College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (7.5%).
| Court | Decisions 2025 | Share of the highest courts | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raad van State | 5,549 | 61% | +7% |
| Centrale Raad van Beroep | 1,900 | 21% | −22% |
| Hoge Raad | 985 | 11% | −3% |
| College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven | 688 | 7.5% | −28% |
See also Raad van State Centrale Raad van Beroep Hoge Raad Netherlands overview
Published decisions only: each court publishes a different share of its rulings, so these counts are not caseloads and cannot be compared as workloads.
Understanding these figures
What the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal does
The Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven, CBb) is the highest administrative court for economic regulation: trade and industry, competition, financial markets and many licensing and subsidy matters. It hears appeals against rulings of the district courts and, in some matters, rules as the only court. In 2025, College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven published 688 decisions; of these, each carries the administrative-law label.
A published selection
The figures count decisions published on rechtspraak.nl, the website of the Dutch judiciary, where each decision carries a European Case Law Identifier (ECLI). Courts publish only part of their rulings, and the share published differs from one court to another, from one area of law to another and from one year to the next. The 688 decisions counted for College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven in 2025 are those published; this is not a count of all the cases the court handled.
ECLI numbers and the court code
An ECLI number has the form ECLI:NL:<court code>:<year>:<number>. The decisions of College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven carry the court code CBB, so their numbers begin ECLI:NL:CBB, followed by the year and a sequence number. With this number, any published decision of the court can be found on rechtspraak.nl.
How areas of law are labelled
Each published decision carries one or more area-of-law labels. There are three broad groups, administrative law, civil law and public international law, and, within them, detailed areas such as tax law or family law. A decision can carry several labels, and some carry only a broad one, so the detailed areas do not add up to their group and counts for different areas cannot be added together.
Reading this court's figures with care
Only the broad area groups are available for this court. The count also depends on what the court publishes: a change from one year to the next may reflect a change in publication as well as in the court's work. The data hold counts only, with no outcome and no time to judgment, and no statistic can predict the outcome of a particular case.
Frequently asked questions
How many decisions did College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven publish in 2025?
College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal) published 688 decisions on rechtspraak.nl in 2025, against 950 in 2024. Published decisions are a selection of all rulings, so this is not the number of cases the court handled.
Which areas of law do the published decisions of College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven cover?
Of its published decisions, each carries the administrative-law label.
What share of the published Dutch decisions comes from College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven?
1.1% of the 64,124 decisions published by the 19 courts covered here in 2025, against 2.5% in 2013.
Does this count every case handled by College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven?
No. The figures count decisions published on rechtspraak.nl, a selection of all rulings. They do not measure the court's caseload.
Can the rulings of College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven be appealed?
No. It is one of the highest courts in its field and its rulings cannot be appealed to another Dutch court.