Price signalling is back on the agenda of cartel enforcers. ACM concluded its mobile telecommunication sector investigation with no evidence of price-fixing, but nevertheless intends to force mobile operators to refrain from making public announcements on planned price increases.

The District Court of Rotterdam annulled the Dutch Competition Authority's fines for alleged participation in a cartel in the double-glazing market.

The Dutch Supreme Court gave its long-awaited ruling about the legality of the Independent Grid Management Act, better known as the Unbundling Act, on 26 June 2015.

On 26 November 2021, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets ("ACM") ceased its probe into agreements on wage increases between Dutch supermarkets.

Only weeks after the ECJ upheld the European Commission’s highest ever fine imposed for gun-jumping, the Commission imposed the exact same fine amount.

Companies should brace themselves for the extra attention their agreements with – particularly online – distributors are soon likely to get.

Vertically-integrated companies may face higher fines as a result of a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice.

A recent judgment from the General Court of the European Union has shed more light on gun jumping. Gun jumping means not notifying a merger that should have been notified or violating...

The scenery of the Dutch telecommunications sector has changed drastically in the last two months.

If the object of a commercial arrangement is anti-competitive, the cartel prohibition applies and the actual effects of the arrangement do not have to be assessed.

During a dawn raid conducted within the context of a sector investigation, the ACM found a report by the forensic IT firm of its findings regarding a competition compliance audit carried out on behalf of the company in the dawn raid.

Only two years ago, the General Court slapped the European Commission on the wrist for having offered too low a fine reduction as compensation for an excessively long administrative procedure.

The District Court East Netherlands has ruled that ABB must compensate TenneT.

Companies are not always sure how much leeway they have under the competition rules to cooperate on sustainability issues.

The Dutch competition regulator ACM for the first time applied a procedure similar to the European Commission's cartel settlement regime:

The District Court of Rotterdam upheld how the ACM calculated the fines imposed on a number of companies for participating in a silver skin onion cartel.

Oral leniency statements do not enjoy the intended protection against disclosure.

The Rotterdam District Court ruled that the ACM should have granted a leniency applicant full immunity from fines upon confessing to its involvement in a cartel.