1 RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND LEGISLATION
Who is/are the relevant merger authority(ies)?
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
("CCPC") is responsible for the
promotion and enforcement of competition law in Ireland. The CCPC
was established on 31 October 2014, when the functions of the
Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency were
amalgamated into a single agency. The CCPC has sole responsibility
for investigating notifiable mergers under Part 3 of the
Competition Act 2002 (as amended) ("Competition
Act"). In addition to being subject to the CCPC
process, media mergers (as defined in the Competition Act) are
subject to a separate process, involving the Minister for
Communications, Climate Action and Environment
("Minister for Communications"). That
process is described in more detail in response to question 2.7
below.
