On this teleseminar representatives from agencies in India, Singapore and the United Kingdom will present their recently updated merger procedures and discuss issues related to the revision and implementation.
DATE:         6 March 2013
TIME: 10am (London), 3.30pm (New Delhi), 6pm (Singapore), 9pm (Sydney). To check your time zone click here.
PANELISTS:
Ms. Jiaying Koh – [...]

Dear ICN community,
Today is the ICN’s 11th anniversary. I thought I would celebrate the occasion by providing a brief update on current ICN initiatives.
This fall we are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ICN’s first recommended practices. We should be proud of ICN’s accomplishments in developing and adopting these international norms. A recent speech [...]

 
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On Tuesday, November 15, the ICN Merger Working Group will host a webinar featuring speakers from the EC and US who will discuss economic tools and techniques for  analyzing unilateral effects in differentiated product markets. The program will cover topics such as diversion ratios and upward pricing pressure, econometric studies, natural experiments, demand estimation and [...]

Merger notification form – Hungary
 
The Hungarian Competition Authority has initiated a public consultation on the draft of the Hungarian merger notification form and on the draft of the informal meetings related to the merger review.

 
The Spanish CNC recently published Guidelines on short-form notification of mergers, describing which type of concentrations are eligible for short-form notification to the CNC.

 
The U.S. antitrust agencies and the European Commission issued an updated set of “best practices” (and accompanying FAQs) that they use to coordinate their merger reviews.  The agencies also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the United States-European Union bilateral antitrust agreement.

 
Following extensive consultations conducted across Canada in 2010 and 2011, as well as consultations with foreign competition agencies, and a focused internal review, the Canadian Competition Bureau has announced the publication of the final Merger Enforcement Guidelines (MEGs)/Fusions — Lignes directrices pour l’application de la loi

 
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European Commission Vice President Joaquín Alumnia spoke on the Policy Objectives of Merger Control at the recent Fordham Competition Conference in New York.