Legal Control Of Mergers In The European Communities

Description: Recent years have seen a spate of company acquisitions and mergers stimulated in part by the moves to create a single European market in 1992. This book examines the means of control of acquisition and merger activity available to the Community's institutions, expecially Regulation 4064/89. The text also considers in detail the Commission's implementing Regulation and Guidelines. The authors describe the context in which mergers take place and introduce the issues of economic and legal policy raised by the idea of merger control at supra-national level. They also look at the procedural requirements and the division of jurisdiction between national and EEC authorities. Also included is the text of Regulation 4064/89 and Regulation 2367/90, the Guideline on Concentrative and Cooperative Operations and the Guideline on Ancillary Restrictions. Antony Downes was also the author of "Textbook on Contract". Julian Ellison is the General Editor of "Joint Ventures in Europe" amd is the author of "Computer Contracts". Contents: The climate for merger control; the scope of Regulation 4064/89; the scope of regulation 4064/89; substantive appraisal under regulation 4064/89; procedure; control of joint ventures in the economic community; merger control in the coal and steel community; the "one-stop shopping" principle and articles 85 and 86 EEC; the interface of Community Law and National Law.