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Netherlands suffers from ‘serious underenforcement’ of dominance law, Snoep says

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 27 Sep 2024 17:26
  • 27 Sep 2024 17:26
The EU prohibition on companies abusing their dominance suffers from “serious underenforcement” in the Netherlands with Dutch consumers being the main victims, according to the head of the national competition authority. 
Martijn Snoep cited problems with getting cases past national courts, which apply tests that are too strict compared with EU

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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