The Dutch minister of economic affairs has announced plans to drop the strict interpretation of net neutrality from Dutch law. In response to a question from parliament, Henk Kamp said the article would be dropped from the Telecommunications Act after it was declared invalid by a court in Rotterdam. When this will happen is still unknown.
In April, the court ruled in an appeal brought by T-Mobile against the regulator ACM that the stricter Dutch law could not prevail over the EU's net neutrality rules. The ACM had tried to sanction T-Mobile for its offer zero-rated data for music streaming, based on a ban on price discrimination included in the Dutch law. However, the court found that no such ban exists in EU law, meaning T-Mobile could continue with the offer.
The ACM has since said that it will review T-Mobile's offer based on the EU legislation. The court did not address this issue, and the minister said it was not up to the government to intervene in the actions of the independent regulator.
