The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) – the Dutch competition agency – has indicated that public statements about future market behavior could infringe competition law. This is the first time an EU antitrust agency has translated the written law into practice and warned companies to avoid publicly informing their competitors about their planned future commercial behavior.

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In December 2011, the ACM carried out dawn raids at a number of mobile network carriers in the Netherlands based on the suspicion of illegal cartel activity. On November 21, 2013, after almost two years of investigation, the Dutch agency has found no evidence of price-fixing agreements in the mobile-telecommunications market.