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The objectives of the Hallmarking Act are:
- to protect the consumer against deceit, and
- to promote honest competition between businesses in the trade of platinum, gold and silver articles.
For this purpose all precious metal articles, with the exception of those articles which are exempt from hallmarking, must be hallmarked, before they are offered for sale, by the Waarborg Platina, Goud and Zilver N.V., known internationally as WaarborgHolland, which has been entrusted with the implementation of this law by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs.
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