The hourly Beneluxtrein ran between Brussels and The Hague (and on to Amsterdam) until 8 December 2012.
The Dutch Competition Authority accepted and published the plans on 27 February 2013, in order to give the existing concessionaires, concession grantors and administrator the opportunity to establish the objective of the proposal and whether it threatened the existing concessionaire's (the NS's) 'economic balance' [REF].