Corporate Merger and Consumer Protection: Lessons from the European Commission

1 Osayd Awawda

Public Law - College of Law - Hebron University

Abstract

The aim of this study is to detect federal measures which are constituted in European merger regulation (2004) that rule the merger of undertakings with respect to the requirements and criteria of the achievement of fair competition and the prohibition of dominance in the federal market. The study highlights the terms of merger regulation no. (139/20014), decisions of the European commission of competition in addition to jurisprudences of the European court of justice that relate to this subject. It begins with determining the general European policy of competition, the definition of merger and the scope of application of the European merger regulation to finally conclude the legitimacy of merger and its adequacy with the requirements of competitive market and faith trading. The study concluded that the action of merger is not the target of prohibition provided by merger regulation. Instead, the prohibition applies where agreed undertakings abuse their dominance position in the federal or national markets.

Keywords

Investment, Corporate Merger, Consumer Protection, Compitition Law