Netherlands competition policy and law have evolved substantially over the past decade the competition law passed in 1958 but its apparent prohibitions of price agreements of market sharing agreements and of collusive tendering were notoriously unenforced leading to the netherlands increasing reputation as tolerant of cartels a 1992 article claimed that some forty per cent of the . Regard to implementation of eu environmental policy and law in the netherlands were european citizens towards the environment 2017 greater eu investment in environmental protection eu 28 85 in addition the netherlands was one of the first eu countries to present a circular economy programme 2014 followed in september 2016 by the comprehensive programme za circular economy in . The netherlands contributes to the development of eu policies on the environment and to other policy areas with either direct or indirect bearing on creating a sustainable living environment in europe and the netherlands the main political driving force for improving the quality of the environment and human health is the eu treaty and the body of legislation to be adopted by the member states . European environment policy rests on the principles of precaution prevention and rectifying pollution at source and on the polluter pays principle multiannual environmental action programmes set the framework for future action in all areas of environment policy they are embedded in horizontal strategies and taken into account in international environmental negotiations last but not