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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 … -
Mobile-data traffic and the number of households with access to fiber-optic went up considerably in 2023
The number of households with access to fiber-optic has considerably increased over the past year, by approximately 25 percent. That is one of the conclusions of the 2023 annual review of the Telecom Monitor of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and … -
Urged by European regulators, social-media platforms Google+, Facebook and Twitter adjust terms and conditions
Google, Facebook and Twitter will adjust the general terms and conditions of their social-media platforms Google+, Facebook and Twitter. This means that consumers, when using these online platforms, will be faced with general terms and conditions that are … -
Flour producer Dossche Mills cleared to acquire rival Meneba
Belgian flour producer Dossche Mills has been cleared to acquire its Dutch rival Meneba. Sufficient competition will remain in the flour sector after this concentration. Competitive pressure from the German mills, which now already serve 30% of the … -
ACM sees more anti-competitive risks of hospital mergers
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) intensifies its attention for anticompetitive risks of hospital mergers. A study into the effects of hospital mergers on prices and volumes has shown that prices increase, relatively speaking. It … -
ACM proposes to regulate KPN’s and VodafoneZiggo’s fixed networks
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) wants to ensure competition by enabling market participants without fixed and mobile networks of their own to continue to offer services to end-users. In that way, sufficient competition will remain …