A consultative referendum on the Intelligence and Security Services Act 2017 will be held in the Netherlands on 21 March 2018 alongside with the municipal elections. It will be the second referendum to be held under the Dutch Consultative Referendum Act after the 2016 Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement referendum.
A campaign to obtain sufficient support declarations for a referendum was initiated by a group of students at the University of Amsterdam concerned about the sweeping surveillance powers granted to the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) under the law. On 1 November 2017, the Electoral Council (Kiesraad) announced that a sufficient number of signatures had been collected to trigger an advisory referendum on the tapping law, with 384,126 valid signatures, over 92 percent of those collected, well above the 300,000 required for a referendum.
Sources and Further Reading:
Dutch referendum voters overwhelmingly reject closer EU links to Ukraine
Netherlands to hold referendum on new surveillance law
Dutch government to scrap referendums, without holding a referendum on it
https://nltimes.nl/2018/02/21/dutch-government-scrap-referendums-without-holding-referendum