Starting from 2014, the European Commission initiated public consultations aimed at modernizing the rules concerning the control of economic concentration operations, with the objective of achieving efficiency and speed in evaluation. At the same time, efforts were made to strengthen the relationship between European and national regulations. The assessment of the application of the substantive test in the procedure for analyzing economic conc...

The competition on the market has been and will be current in any period. The social and economic context influences the competition rules. In order to have the best possible position in the market, some economic agents will resort to practices that violate the rules of fair competition. Because of this, a balanced competition, in an increasingly technological world, is quite difficult to maintain, because there are many factors both internal ...

If an economic concentration is created by the merger or acquisition of movable assets and the turnover of the companies involved exceeds the threshold provided by law, it is necessary that this concentration be notified to the Competition Council.The Competition Council will verify the way in which this concentration affects the geographic market and the product market, being extremely important the benefits that it can bring for collab...