On 16 June 2022 the chairman of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, Martijn Snoep, spoke at the XVth Treviso Antitrust Conference.

In the United States, class actions seem to be a go-to instrument for cartel follow-on litigation. In the United Kingdom, the (certification) criteria for collective proceedings were recently...

According to Advocate General Kokott, cartel members may be liable for damages resulting from umbrella pricing.

At the request of the Dutch Minister of Finance, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (Autoriteit Consument & Markt; ACM)

The Authority for Consumers & Markets ("ACM") has made several suggestions with its new draft Guidance regarding "Well-functioning markets for healthcare IT" ("Draft Guidance IT-Healthcare").

Despite rapid developments across the EU with respect to foreign direct investment (FDI) screening, the developments in this field were at a slower pace in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands recently transposed the Damages Directive into its national law. The Dutch implementing law has not led to fundamental changes to the already existing antitrust damages regime.

The effects-based approach towards vertical restraints, as applied by the Dutch competition authority, is seemingly losing ground.

The NMa recently fined 10 window cleaners for their market sharing activities in 2006. The information on which the NMa based its case was – once again - passed on by the public prosecutor who prosecuted the window cleaners for tax evasion and money laundering.

. According to ABB, the magnitude of the overcharge was to be determined by comparing ABB's profit margins for GIS during its participation in the cartel and thereafter.

The truck manufacturers raised several arguments in relation to the scope of the Decision.

Cartel members may soon have to worry about providing compensation to customers of non-cartel members.

On 6 May 2021, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets ("ACM") published its updated market study ("FttH report") into the roll-out in the Netherlands of fibre-optic broadband networks...