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ARTICLE · 27 OCTOBER 2020

New Merger Control Thresholds In Ukraine And Other News From The AMC

The AMC will submit the draft law to the Ukrainian Parliament early this November and expects it to be adopted later this year.

UkraineAntitrust/Competition Law

On 21 October 2020, during the kick-off event of the EU-funded Twinning Project, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") announced that it is preparing the draft law that will introduce amendments to the Ukrainian merger filing thresholds. The AMC will submit the draft law to the Ukrainian Parliament early this November and expects it to be adopted later this year.

According to the AMC, the proposed merger control reform will provide that:

  • the turnover/assets value of a controlling seller would be excluded when calculating the target's notification thresholds (currently, the turnover/assets of the seller controlling the target are taken into account when calculating the merger thresholds of the target, and the filing may be technically triggered based on a seller only); and

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