These 26-page Guidelines apply to mergers between companies either active each at a different level of the supply chain (vertical mergers) or in complementary or otherwise related markets (conglomerate mergers). As with vertical restraints and other business practices, the Commission is willing to recognize that such mergers could engender efficiency gains. Among the anticompetitive effects, the possibility that competing companies are denied access to an inportant supplier or face increased prices for this inputs and this results in higher prices for consumers (and less innovative products?).
As in other areas of EU competition law, the Guidelines foresee "save harbours", that is levels of market share and concentration below which anticompetive concern are unlikely.
Yet another example of the "more economic approach", it seems.
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EC, here . [NotebookLM's own DeepDive here , just for fun] In our Article 19 Report we discussed this and how it could eventually trans... -
In the US, here . I posed the question this morning and received an answer within 30 minutes. That was efficient, thank you!
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Bruegel, here. (Talking about lobbying: Alexandra and Robin should perhaps ask...Who's financing Bruegel, BTW?) -
T. Ribera, here.
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More PerfectUnion, here.
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9To5Mac, here. The usual playbook, AI edition!
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CEDPO, here .
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Togelius, here.