The Netherlands is ranked number 5 in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index 2012-2013 that was issued this September

The recent alleged LIBOR manipulation has led regulators to rethink benchmark regulation.

The "Besluit instelling Adviescommissie bezwaarschriften ACM" (Decision setting up an ACM Objections Advisory Committee) was repealed.

There were several developments in competition law in weeks 33 and 34.

The District Court of Rotterdam overturned the fines on Pilkington and Scheuten for their participation in a double glazing cartel.

The Act increasing the maximum fine that the Authority for Consumers and Markets can impose for cartel infringements is set to enter into force on 1 July 2016.

The European Commission recently revised its explanatory note on dawn raids to clarify that employees' personal devices and media can be searched during raids.

Nieuwsbrief Mededingingsrecht, our competition newsletter listing the most recent developments in competition law, has been renamed Competition kort and will from now on appear every two weeks.

Don’t bank on the Transparency Regulation to give you access to the Commission’s confidential cartel files to substantiate your civil damages claims.

The Damages Directive, which seeks to promote and harmonise the private enforcement of EU competition law before national courts across the European Union – and which was first published in December 2014 after more than ten years of debate – was due to be transposed into national law by each Member State by 27 December 2016

Participating in a cartel as well as contributing to the implementation of a cartel can lead to substantial fines.

The European Commission has lowered a fine to be imposed on ARA for blocking its competitors from entering the Austrian household packaging waste management market...

Cartel participation as well as the act of contributing to the implementation of a cartel can lead to substantial fines.

The Supreme Court ruled that an exclusive purchasing clause had an anti-competitive object as it was concluded between parties that had a vertical as well as a horizontal relationship with each other

The competition law journal Mededingingsrecht in de Praktijk this month contains an article by Erik-Jan Zippro on a proposed EU directive on actions for damages for competition law infringements.

The European Court of Justice recently confirmed that in proving a cartel, the Commission can rely on evidence legally transmitted to it by a national tax authority.

In this newsletter we provide you an overview of the latest developments in Competition.

Denial appears to be the best strategy in preventing the Dutch competition authority, the ACM, from publishing a decision to impose a fine and thus branding a company a cartel infringer.

The Dutch Council of State has set out general rules for the allocation of limited permits by public authorities in a recent case involving gaming machine permits.