CASE COMMENT : CONCENTRATIONS – EU MERGER REGULATION - PROPOSAL FOR SIMPLIFYING PROCEDURES - CONSULTATION

Proposal for simplifying procedures: The European Commission releases a document whereby it invites the public to comment on a proposal for simplifying procedures

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Comm. eur., communiqué IP/13/288 du 27 mars 2013, Concentrations: la Commission lance une consultation sur une proposition de simplification des procédures prévues par le règlement de l’UE sur les concentrations

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Commission has published a number of documents representing changes to both the basic Regulation and the Merger Implementing Regulation. These texts were made available for public comment in a consultation that took place between 27 March and 19 June 2013. A desire to simplify procedures As indicated in the press release (IP/13/288 of 27 March 2013), the idea of this proposal is to make merger control in the EU even more business-friendly by cutting red tape and streamlining procedures. It is well known that today a large number of notifications are made under the simplified procedure (and result in a short clearance decision: until 2012 these decisions

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