Public consultation: The European Commission gains broad support for further simplification of procedural aspects of merger control

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 3 December 2021, the Commission made public the results of the consultationlaunched on 26 March 2021 on a possible review of certain procedural aspects of EU merger control. To this end, it invited stakeholders to provide input on different policy options to further focus and simplify EU merger control procedures. For example, EU merger control could be better targeted. One option would be to broaden and clarify the scope of mergers covered by the simplified procedure and to review