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Better Regulation: Synthesis of the reports on Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal and United Kingdom

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15-Jul-2009

The EU 15 project is a partnership between the OECD and the EU Commission. It aims to assess regulatory management capacities in 15 member states of the EU, describes trends in their development, and identifies gaps in relation to good practice.

Better Regulation in the Netherlands

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10-Jul-2009

The EU 15 project is a partnership between the OECD and the EU Commission. It aims to assess regulatory management capacities in 15 member states of the EU, describes trends in their development, and identifies gaps in relation to good practice.

Cutting red tape: administrative simplification in the Netherlands

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25-Sep-2007

Red tape is burdensome to companies,  inhibits entrepreneurship, and reduces competitiveness.

Economic Survey of the Netherlands 2005: Further Improvement of Product Market Competition, Especially in Services

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15-Dec-2005

This chapter discusses options for further product market reform, especially in services, so as to increase productivity growth. Licence and permit procedures pose an important regulatory barrier.

Product market competition and economic performance in the Netherlands

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31-Mar-2005

Maria Maher and Michael Wise

This paper assesses what role product market competition and reforms may have played in the performance of the Dutch economy over the past decade, and discusses what further product market reforms might contribute to enhancing growth. Economics Department Working Paper 422. 

Economic Survey - Netherlands 2004: Product market competition and economic performance

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26-May-2004

The OECD Economic Survey of the Netherlands 2004 concludes that competition in product markets, which is vital for raising productivity growth, can still be enhanced, notably by eliminating unwarranted ...

The Role of Competition Policy in Regulatory Reform in the Netherlands

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15-Apr-2003

Is competition policy sufficiently integrated into the general policy framework for regulation? Competition policy is central to regulatory reform, because (as Chapter 2 shows) its principles and analysis ...

Netherlands: Regulatory Reform in the Electricity Industry

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10-Sep-1999

This review of the electricity sector assesses how the country can improve economic regulations and market structures to support the beneficial effects of competition, increase consumer choice and enhance productivity of the sector concerned.

Netherlands: The Role of Competition Policy in Regulatory Reform

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10-Sep-1999

This review assesses how the country deals with competition and regulatory issues, from the soundness of its competition law to the structure and effectiveness of its competition institutions.