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22 May 2025

Legislative proposal ACM Call-In Power Act: possible expansion of the scope of merger control supervision by the Dutch Competition Authority

On 18 March 2025, Members of the Dutch Parliament Julian Boshoff (GroenLinks-PvdA) and Daniëlle Jansen (Nieuw Sociaal Contract) introduced a legislative proposal seeking to expand the enforcement powers of the Dutch Competition Authority (known as the Autoriteit Consument & Markt or ACM). Specifically, the proposal aims to empower the ACM to call in concentrations that fall below the applicable turnover thresholds, where such concentrations could nonetheless significantly impede effective competition in the Dutch market or a part thereof.

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24 Mar 2025

Proposed changes to the EU ESG legislation: the first Omnibus package

Recently, the European Commission proposed to simplify certain Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) legislation in order to facilitate competitiveness and unlock additional investment capacity of the European Union. As part of the ESG legislation, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance Regulation (EU Taxonomy Regulation) were adopted between the years 2020 and 2024.

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14 Oct 2025

Wagevoe

Since 1 January 2025, a new act was introduced for shareholder disputes: the ‘Act amending the dispute resolution rules and clarifying the admissibility requirements for inquiry proceedings’ (in short: Wagevoe). Before 2025, anyone who wanted to buy out a co-shareholder or leave a company could usually expect a long process involving various procedures. As my colleague Rick Dijksterhuis explained at the time in his earlier contribution on this bill, the legislator had one clear goal: to make the resolution of shareholder disputes faster, simpler and more practical. In practice, we see that this has an impact on the way shareholders litigate.