Regulating Cross-Border Markets in the European Community

This text, covering cross-border markets in the European Community, should be of value to practitioners and scholars with a special interest in competition (anti-trust) law and EC law, and economists concerned with competition policy.

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The EC Merger Regulation (1992) extends the jurisdiction of the European competition authorities to the area of merger activity between businesses. In so doing the Regulation has had an immediate and profound effect upon business activity particularly where large corporations and multi-nationals are concerned. This detailed and insightful study of the Regulation and its legal effects pays particularly careful attention to the relationship between the Regulation and European Competition policy generally. This book is intended for practitioners and scholars with a special interest in competition (anti-trust) law; practitioners and scholars with a general interest in EC law. Economists concerned with competition policy.