Business environment; international market forces compared to 1990-2011

This table gives an indication of market forces for the Netherlands and a permanent group of reference countries by means of an overview of regulatory, government measures and other barriers that may influence market functioning. These indicators provide information on competitive pressure and mark-up (profit margin), price convergence, employee protection, public procurement and state aid. For the business environment, it is important that market forces (national and international) are minimised by regulation or other barriers that make it difficult for other companies to enter the market. Please note: In order to make an international comparison possible, the figures presented here use internationally comparable definitions, which sometimes differ from the definitions normally used by CBS. As a result, differences can occur between these figures and national figures published elsewhere on the CBS website. Data available from: 1990 to 2011. Status of the figures: The external sources of these figures provide regularly updated data for previous periods. These adjusted data are not marked as such in the table. Changes as of 22 December 2017: No, table has been discontinued. When are new figures coming? It’s not.