The Luxembourg Competition Authority investigates certain mergers and acquisitions (Utopia)

Luxembourg still has no national merger control system meaning that, contrary to all other countries in the EU, mergers, acquisitions and creations of joint ventures potentially raising competition concerns in Luxembourg can proceed without the prior clearance by (and therefore prior notification to) the national competition authority, the Conseil de la concurrence, where the transaction has no EU dimension (and thereby no requirement for European Commission approval). This has not prevented the Conseil de la concurrence from