The ACM has published new digital dawn raid guidelines specifying how it uses its powers to inspect and copy digital media.

The cabinet has announced its intention to reform the non-competition clause in order to restrict the unnecessary use thereof. According to Minister van Gennip (Social Affairs and Employment)..

On 9 december 2025, the European Commission announced that it has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules...

A new act has come into force streamlining the rules that originally applied individually to each of the competition, consumer and telecommunications regulators.

The coalition parties that will form the next Dutch government published the coalition agreement, including their strategic priorities, on 30 January 2026.

The Dutch House of Representatives has adopted a private member's bill introducing call-in powers for the Dutch competition authority ACM, enabling review of below-threshold transactions while simultaneously raising mandatory notification thresholds. This reform shifts Dutch merger control from a purely threshold-based system toward a discretionary, risk-based regime that could significantly impact dealmakers pursuing roll-up strategies, buy-and-build models, or acquisitions in concentrated markets.

The Dutch competition regulator, theACM, has blocked a concentration between two of the biggest media companies in the Netherlands: Talpa Networks ("Talpa") and RTL Netherlands B.V. ("RTL"). RTL Group S.A. intended to acquire Talpa Network B.V. (the "Proposed Concentration").

On 25 July 2012, the Court of First Instance of Amsterdam (the "Court") rejected a claim brought by three former repairers of KIA Nederland BV ("KIA Nederland"), ruling that the distribution system in question did not infringe the competition rules.

The District Court for the central region of the Netherlands (Rechtbank Midden-Nederland) rejected a request for interim relief by the European Football Agents association and Pro Agent...

The Netherlands has launched its new Consumer and Market Authority on 1 April 2013.

Second, the Court considered that the selective distribution system was necessary in the light of the nature of the products.

If it were up to Advocate General Wahl, the General Court would need to reassess its qualification of exclusivity rebates granted by computer chips producer Intel as per se unlawful.