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System operators Enexis, Liander, Stedin, and TenneT to launch improvement process to clarify investment plans following ACM assessment
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has assessed the investment plans of system operators Coteq, Enexis, GTS, Liander, RENDO, Stedin, TenneT on-shore, TenneT off-shore, and Westland, and has given them the green light to finalize … -
Global Marketing Bridge and its executives fined for having misled customers in telemarketing calls involving energy contracts
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has fined telemarketing firm Global Marketing Bridge B.V. (GMB) 400,000 euros for having misled consumers in telemarketing calls involving energy contracts. Since the two executives of GMB directed … -
ACM: Thuiswinkel’s sustainability initiative fits with competition rules
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has no objections against the launch of a new sector-wide sustainability standard of Thuiswinkel.org, the Dutch trade association for the e-commerce sector (Thuiswinkel). Thuiswinkel’s initiative … -
ACM Monitor: suppliers more and more often distinguish between customers with and without solar panels, HEM’s rates still the highest
Energy suppliers distinguish more and more often between customers with and without solar panels. This is one of the conclusions of the most recent Monitor on the consumer energy market. More and more suppliers decide not to offer multi-year fixed … -
Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn to remove incorrect sustainability claims following ACM action
Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn (AH) will remove unclear and incorrect sustainability claims from its stores. It will do so after the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) confronted the company with the claims. In various stores, AH … -
InSight 2014
In InSight, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) covers different social trends that are important to its oversight work such as the trend of reducing red tape, where the government stimulates companies to make arrangements about … -
Benefits of ACM’s oversight to consumers amount to EUR 1.85 billion
Consumers directly benefit from the oversight activities of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). In 2013, these benefits amounted to EUR 1.85 billion, which is EUR 300 per household. This was the main conclusion of ACM’s first annual … -
District Court of Rotterdam rules in silverskin onion cartel
On May 25, 2012, ACM (one of its predecessors, the Netherlands Competition Authority) imposed fines totaling more than EUR 9 million on undertakings that grow and process silverskin onions for having violated the Dutch and European cartel prohibitions. … -
ACM investigates antitrust concerns for smaller postal companies
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has decided to further investigate possible problems in the market for transporting unsorted mail. The amended Dutch Postal Act recently granted ACM the ability to do so. More specifically, it is … -
Introduction of smart meter is progressing well
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) is of the opinion that the introduction of the smart meter (digital meter) is progressing well. ACM has come to this conclusion in its report on the small-scale rollout of the digital energy meters …