Combination of regulators in the Netherlands


The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) was officially launched on 1 April 2013, resulting from the combination of the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa), the Netherlands Consumer Authority (NCA) and the Netherlands Independent Post and Telecommunication Authority (OPTA), bodies that so far operated in the fields of competition, consumers and energy, transports, postal services and telecommunications, respectively.


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