Market tests in antitrust and merger control proceedings

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Introduction David BOSCO Professor, Aix-Marseille University 1. It is probably no longer necessary to stress the importance of decisions adopted with commitments by the parties in contemporary antitrust law and merger control. Everyone measures the extent of the phenomenon by reading the activity reports published by our competition authorities, and the doctrine has not failed to give it the consideration it deserves. In the contentious path that is followed up to the adoption of such decisions, however, there is one stage that remains regrettably little explored to this day. These are the market tests by which third parties to the procedure are called