China – MOFCOM: China undertakes its annual enforcement assessment of the Antimonopoly Law and issues new conditional approvals of international mergers with major bearings on the operators’ daily management

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 27 December 2011, the Director General of the Antimonopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), one of the three Chinese competition authorities in charge of merger control, Mr Shang Ming, held a press conference in Beijing on the 2011 review of the implementation of Chinese competition law. No less than four merger approval decisions were taken in September-December 2011, three of which were, however, subject to a series of commitments The latter concern mergers involving at least one foreign operator (Seagate Technology/Samsung Electronics in the hard disk drive market, Savio Macchine Tessili/Alpha Private Equity Fund V in the textile