EC Merger Control

This practical guide to EC competition law provides both a useful handbook and a comprehensive sourcebook of actual decisions. Giving full coverage of merger control issues, this third edition has been extensively revised and rewritten to include important case law, merger decisions and notifications and key legislation. Specific developments include: * Regulation 447/98, now in force, introducing new, supplementary thresholds for Community dimension, with convoluted multiple criteria * A revised implementing Regulation, with amended CO form * Revised Notices to interpret the new Regulation * A statement entitled "Information on the assessment of full-function JVs pursuant to the competition rules of the EC" which impacts significantly on the area of joint ventures * Revised organisational arrangements within DGIV for the treatment of JVs.