THE LEGAL REGIME OF COMPETITION IN NETHERLANDS

The present-day competition regime in the Netherlands begins with the enactment of the Competition Act on 1 January 1998. The substantive provisions of the Competition Act are a copy of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The Competition Act prohibits anticompetitive agreements and the abuse of a dominant position. The Competition Act established the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa) as the domestic body responsible for the enforcement of competition law. On 1 April 2013, the NMa unified with the independent Post and Telecommunication Authority and the Consumer Au... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Ovidiu-Horia Maican
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Reihe/Periodikum: Perspectives of Law and Public Administration, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 167-176 (2019)
Verlag/Hrsg.: ADJURIS – International Academic Publisher
Schlagwörter: competition authorities / competition / Netherlands / European Union / Law / K / Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence / K1-7720
Sprache: Englisch
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The present-day competition regime in the Netherlands begins with the enactment of the Competition Act on 1 January 1998. The substantive provisions of the Competition Act are a copy of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The Competition Act prohibits anticompetitive agreements and the abuse of a dominant position. The Competition Act established the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa) as the domestic body responsible for the enforcement of competition law. On 1 April 2013, the NMa unified with the independent Post and Telecommunication Authority and the Consumer Authority into a single regulator, the Consumer and Market Authority (ACM).