AKD publishes a monthly newsletter to inform you of the most important recent developments in competition law and adjacent regulation at EU level and in the Benelux. This month featuring Just Eat/Naspers, decisions of the Belgian Competition Authority in Proximus/Orange and Dossche Mills/Cera, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation and much more. This newsletter brings you entirely up to date!
On the third Tuesday of September, known as Budget Day (Prinsjesdag), the Dutch Ministry of Finance traditionally presents the Budget Plan, which includes the Ministry’s tax plans for the upcoming year. The draft bills presented on Budget Day will be debated in the Dutch Parliament. During the legislative process, these bills may be amended. We have outlined the main proposals below. Unless otherwise noted, these proposals are expected to take effect on 1 January 2026.
De Amerikaanse inflatie ligt al vijf jaar ver boven de doelstellingen van de Federal Reserve. De trend beweegt langzaam omhoog. Tegelijkertijd stapelen de signalen van arbeidsmarktverkoeling zich op.
From compliance to workforce readiness, explore common organizational barriers to adopting agentic, physical and sovereign AI—and how the future of AI is evolving.
As organizations accelerate their adoption of advanced AI trends in 2025, the path forward is marked by both opportunity and complexity.
As of today, the EU Data Act comes into force across the European Union. Part of a broader package of digital legislation, this regulation establishes clear rules for accessing and sharing data generated by connected products and related services (primarily Internet of Things – IoT – products). It also introduces important safeguards against unfair contract terms in data-sharing agreements and facilitates switching between data processing services.
US fund managers (USFMs) regularly set up an office in Europe to accommodate European deal sourcing, European capital raising and/or to manage their European asset acquisition vehicles. As the Netherlands offers an attractive legal and social environment, it is usually on the shortlist of jurisdictions for setting up such office.
Can mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures (concentrations) that escape concentration supervision by falling under the applicable notification thresholds nevertheless be subsequently reviewed – and even disallowed – under the prohibition on abuse of a dominant position? In the Towercast judgment, the European Court of Justice affirmed that the EU prohibition on abuse of a dominant position (Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)) can apply to concentrations that fall below the notification thresholds.
AKD publishes a monthly newsletter to inform you of the most important recent developments in competition law and adjacent regulation (such as FDI) at EU level and in the Benelux. This month featuring the spot trading cartel, the cigarette cartel and competition law and arbitration and more. This newsletter brings you entirely up-to-date!
From 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act will be fully applicable. Parts of the AI Act already entered into force on 2 February 2025, and as from 2 August 2025, various other provisions became applicable, including rules for general-purpose AI models (GPAI models) and penalties for violations of the AI Act. The other provisions that entered into force relate to notified bodies (Chapter III, Section 4), governance (Chapter VII), and confidentiality (Article 78). In this News Update, we will look in more detail at the obligations for providers of GPAI models and the penalties for violations.