Ireland: Review of Irish merger control legislation
Thursday, 1 October 1998
Featured In: October / November 1998 (Vol. 1 Iss. 5)
A review of existing Irish merger control legislation is overdue, particularly since the Competition Authority decided that mergers should be subject to review not only under the Mergers Act (the legislation designed specifically for the review of mergers) but also under the Competition Act (which is modelled on Articles 85 and 86 of the EC Treaty). An expert group appointed by the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment has recently published a report recommending the streamlining of the merger control regime, as well as procedural improvements under the Mergers Act.
Gerald FitzGerald*
McCann FitzGerald
Dublin
*The author is a member of the Competition and Mergers Review Group
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