The Bibob law was designed to move criminals out of legal businesses with cannabis and prostitution, but this law has had some unexpected effects: Since owners of brothels who have a criminal record to their name, even if their only crime(s) would have been (associated to) operating a brothel before prostitution was legalized, don't pass the bibob-law-checks, some legitimate owners of brothels, not acting as criminal pimps, were forced to stop their business. The lifting of the ban on prostitution in the year 2000 has given town councils the authority to enforce upon legal brothels any rules they consider necessary. The biggest fear that owners of brothels have, would be to loose their license, so they have little choice but to comply with those rules. This has forced owners of licensed brothels into the role of police officers, a role that most brothel owners dislike, but they reluctantly comply to keep their license. Many sex workers have lost their safe work space, because they were foreign nationals from outside the European Union, forced to work underground, because they could not obtain a work permit.