Currently, Luxembourg is the only EU Member State without a
national merger control regime.
In essence, merger control rules aim to review ex ante
the impact of projected business combinations on the competitive
structure of a given market with a view to intervening preventively
with respect to transactions which would likely reduce competition
among rival firms and/or foreclose competitors.
On 13 July, the Ministry of Economy published an interim report
on the preparatory work on the introduction of such a regime to
which economic players and public authorities have participated
(see link here).
This document summarises the input of the participants, in
particular the outcome of a public consultation launched earlier
this year (read more here).
