The EU Commission issues a reform package to simplify and streamline the EU merger control regime

Hamilton, Andrea L.; Henry, David

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5 Dec 2013

The EU Commission issues a reform package to simplify and streamline the EU merger control regime

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EU Commission, Best Practice Guidelines: The Commission’s Model Texts for Divestiture Commitments and the Trustee Mandate under the EC Merger Regulation, 5 December 2013

EUROPEAN COMMISSION SIMPLIFIES ASPECTS OF EU MERGER CONTROL* The European Commission (Commission) has issued a package of measures (the Reform Package), the rationale for which is to simplify and streamline EU merger control. The Reform Package does this by extending “simplified” treatment to more transactions, reducing the information that parties to a notifiable transaction have to submit and streamlining the pre-notification process. The reforms take effect on 1 January 2014. The overall objective of the Reform Package is to make EU merger procedures simpler and more business friendly. But it may actually introduce additional work for some types of transactions, for instance by introducing new categories of information that parties to a notifiable transaction must be prepared to

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Auteurs

Andrea L. Hamilton
Milbank (London)

Royaume-Uni 21 contributions 11658 visites
David Henry
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (Brussels)

Belgique 63 contributions 96820 visites

Citation

Andrea L. Hamilton, David Henry, The EU Commission issues a reform package to simplify and streamline the EU merger control regime, 5 décembre 2013, e-Competitions December 2013, Art. N° 92789

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