The Netherlands is an early mover in healthcare liberalisation. It has a dual policy towards competition enforcement in the sector: not only the general competition rules (the prohibitions on cartels and the abuse of dominance, and merger control) but also rules of sector specific competition...

This paper provides a discussion of the Commission's July 2008 proposal for a Directive on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare (the proposed patient mobility Directive). It does so against the background of an overview of the preceding patient mobility case law of the...