Supervision and supervisory authorities <br> A few introductory remarks

University, the Netherlands. Both are members of the editorial board of the Utrecht Law Review (contact: A.Prechal@law.uu.nl; H.vanRijswick@law.uu.nl). 1 This is at least true for the Netherlands. See, however, also the next note. 2 Cf. R. Caranta , M. Andenas and D. Fairgrieve, Independent Administrative Authorities, British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2004; T. Zwart and L.Verhey, Agencies in European and Comparative Law, Antwerp/Oxford/New York 2003. As for liability, see for instance M Tison, ‘Do not attack the watchdog! Banking supervisor’s liability after Peter Paul’, 2005 Common Market Law Review, no. 42, pp. 639-675, and C. van Dam, Aansprakelijkheid van toezichthouders, WODC/BIICL 2006.