The Reform of the EC Merger Regime: A Critical Assessment of the New Rules and Procedures and the Implications for Enforcers and Practitioners

On Thursday 7 and Friday 8 October 2004, the seminar "The Reform of the EC Merger Regime: A Critical Assessment of the New Rules and Procedures and the Implications for Enforcers and Practitioners" took place at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht as part of its series of EC Competition Law Seminars. With speakers from the European Commission, national competition authorities as well as law and consultancy firms specialising in competition law, the objective of this seminar was to analyse the substantive issues (first day) as well as the jurisdictional and procedural aspects (second day) of the European merger control regime and its interaction with the national level. It offered participants an international forum for exchanging information, first experiences and views on the new regime in force since 1 May 2004.
We are grateful to all speakers for their valuable comments and remarks received in the course of the preparation of the following summary.