Publisher's Synopsis
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".
