European Commission Adopts Texts To Further Simplify Procedures For Reviewing Concentrations Under The EU Merger Regulation

To reduce the administrative burden for merging parties, the European Commission adopted last week a package of texts to further simplify procedures for reviewing concentrations under the EU Merger Regulation. As a result, the scope of the simplified procedure for the review of mergers that are unproblematic from a competition point of view, so-called simplified cases, is widened and the notification process is made easier both for simplified and non-simplified cases. The package includes: (i) a revised Merger Implementing Regulation, (ii) a Notice on Simplified Procedure, and (iii) a Communication on the transmission of documents.

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