Doortje Ninck Blok
State Aid Law, Competition Law and Public Procurement Law
Doortje Ninck Blok has been an attorney at Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh since February 2017.
Since 2004, she has gained extensive experience in various positions in the fields of state aid and public procurement law at the Dutch national government. In this role, she acted as senior adviser at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, assisting various municipalities and provinces in state aid proceedings before the European Commission. Doortje regularly publishes in professional journals on current topics relating to state aid, competition and procurement law. In addition, she provides knowledge sessions in these areas of law for, among others, the Academy of European Law, Tilburg University and various in-house client organizations. She also chairs and organizes the state aid roundtable, together with several regional law firms.
Recent matters
- Conducted, on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, an assessment of whether state compensation for the Main Rail Network concession 2025–2033 complied with the state aid rules under the PSO Regulation and the Altmark criteria.
- Advised a municipality with financial involvement in a struggling professional football organization on restructuring and state aid.
- Assisted a fish auction with the notification of state aid to the European Commission.
- Represented a parallel distributor of pharmaceuticals in proceedings against a health insurer concerning European and competition law issues.