The Horizontal Merger Guidelines Introduced By The Ukrainian Competition Authority

Ukrainian competition law and practice continues to improve. This also includes the actual practice of law application, interpretation and clarification by the Ukrainian competition regulator – the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC").

Aiming to bring transparency to the assessment of mergers involving actual or potential competitors, the AMC approved the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (the "Guidelines") at the end of 2016. The Guidelines were developed by the AMC with assistance from the competition institutions of Lithuania, Germany and the USA, and are based on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines of the EU.

According to the Guidelines, the merger assessment by the AMC will include: