*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The pre-notification procedure A view from the Competition Authority Nadine MOUY [1] Head of the Merger Department, Competition Authority 1. A concentration may be notified to the Competition Authority where the parties concerned are able to submit a sufficiently well-formulated [2]proposal. However, as confirmed by the Authority [3]'s merger control guidelines, companies have the possibility of pre-notifying concentrations, i.e. consulting the merger department on a project, regardless of its stage of completion. This procedure is informal and does not run the time limits for examination. It does not give rise to publication and can remain completely
TRENDS : MERGER - PRE-NOTIFICATION - PROCEDURE
The pre-notification phase
The pre-notification phase has proved to be a useful mean to address “upfront” many of the issues that a concentration may raise, without being bound by the strict timetable of the formal review process. It works well but there is arguably still some room for improvement.
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