New ACM Presents Its Strategy, Market Vision And 2013 Priorities

On 11 April 2013, Chris Fonteijn, chairman of the Netherlands Consumer and Market Authority (ACM), presented three documents setting out ACM's main activities: a strategy document, a market vision and the 2013 priorities. The ACM was created on 1 April 2013 as a successor to the NMa, the OPTA and the Consumer Authority.

In its Strategy document, the ACM describes its mission as: "promoting opportunities and choices for businesses and consumers". ACM's core values are: independence, openness and professionalism. According to Fonteijn, the new organization should operate in as flexible a fashion as possible: more prioritization between cases, more cooperation with other supervisors, and more flexibility when it comes to the choice between various instruments: regulation, administrative enforcement and informal settlement.