Remedies for Coordinated Effects Under the EU Merger Regulation

Abstract:     
The present article discusses remedies for coordinated effects under the EU Merger Regulation. To this end, it is divided in three parts. Part I reviews the remedies applied to date by the Commission in coordinated effects cases (I). Part II discusses the substantive standard against which such remedies are evaluated (II). Part III underlines a number of practical difficulties which arise when merging parties devise remedies to allay the Commission’s coordinated effects concerns (III).

Number of Pages in PDF File: 15

Keywords: Competition, Antitrust, Merger Control, Remedies, Collusion, Coordinated Effects

JEL Classification: K21, L4

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