A bill amending the Competition Act has been passed and published in the Belgian State Gazette.

In 2007, the European Commission fined 11 groups of companies over EUR 750 million for participating in a cartel for gas insulated switchgear projects.

For some time, the ACM has actively been enforcing competition rules against Apple relating to in-app payment services possibilities for apps offered via the App Store.

Most terms in contractual relations are the result of tough but fair negotiations between trading partners.

Contrary to the European Commission and most jurisdictions, the NMa considers the purchaser and seller jointly responsible for notification of (sole control) acquisitions under the Dutch merger rules and fined purchasers as well as sellers for failure to notify a concentration.

Following a CJEU judgment of 4 July 2023, significant changes have been brought to the privacy, data protection, and competition law landscapes in the EU.

The first part of a long-awaited modernization of the Dutch Competition Act 1997 has recently been finalized.

The Dutch government, including the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), is committed to support the Dutch economy, its businesses and citizens during the COVID-19 crisis.

According to Advocate General Wathelet, there is no legal connection between a leniency application filed with the European Commission and a summary application made to a national competition authority for the same cartel.

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has carried out dawn raids at several suppliers to institutions in the public sector as part of an investigation into a suspected customer allocation cartel.

In 2003 Albert Heijn, the largest food retailer in the Netherlands, began cutting its prices to bring a halt to its declining market share.

The District Court of Rotterdam recently ruled that former employees cannot invoke the right to remain silent when questioned in relation to their former employer.

The NMa is keeping a close watch on the advice given by trade associations to their members. In the past months, the NMa has urged a total of five trade associations to adjust the recommendations made to their members.

All attacks by the cable companies and KPN's downstream customers against the 2008 conditional first phase approval of the creation by KPN of its glass fibre joint venture Reggefiber were unsuccessful.

Companies should brace themselves, as 2017 is likely to see better and more effective competition enforcement in the EU.