Mergers: Commission seeks feedback on certain aspects of EU merger control

The European Commission launched on 7 October 2016 a public consultation on the functioning of certain procedural and jurisdictional aspects of EU merger control.

The consultation focuses on:

+ the effectiveness of purely turnover-based thresholds in the EU Merger Regulation;
+ the treatment of cases that typically do not raise competition concerns;
+ the referral mechanisms between Member States and the Commission.

The Commission invited feedback on the functioning of the simplified procedure to see whether there was scope to further simplify the treatment of certain categories of non-problematics cases beyond the proposals that had already been contained in the White Paper, published in 2014.

ESO: Background information: EU merger control and innovation http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-merger-control-and-innovation/

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