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The Netherlands Merger Control 2025: ACM Procedures, Thresholds, Healthcare/NZa, Proposed Call‑in Powers, Media Plurality Remedies, and Interaction with EU FSR and Dutch FDI Screening
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The Netherlands Merger Control 2025: ACM Procedures, Thresholds, Healthcare/NZa, Proposed Call‑in Powers, Media Plurality Remedies, and Interaction with EU FSR and Dutch FDI Screening
NOTE—to see whether notification thresholds in the Netherlands and across the globe are met, see further: Where to Notify 1. Have there been any recent developments regarding the Dutch merger control regime and are any updates/developments expected in the coming year? Are there any other ‘hot’ merger control issues with the ACM? Media Following the Authority for Consumers and Market’s (ACM) prohibition of RTL’s proposed purchase of Talpa (two players in the Dutch television media market) on 30 January 2023, DPG Media announced plans to acquire RTL and filed the deal with the ACM. On 17 May 2024, the ACM concluded that the transaction merited deeper scrutiny and therefore referred the matter to the second (‘licence’) phase. On 18 July 2024, the parties submitted their application for the requisite licence. On 27 June 2025, the ACM issued conditional clearance for the merger in its DPG/RTL
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