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EU merger guidelines are adaptable, not ‘fossilized,’ Guersent says

( October 12, 2023, 12:46 GMT | Insight) -- New market realities mean the EU merger regulator must be allowed to depart from guidelines in novel cases, the head of the European Commission’s competition department said today. “We need to have some capacity to depart from guidelines, provided we justify in the decision why. That’s the only way for our merger control to be able to follow the evolution of the market,” Olivier Guersent told a conference. New market realities mean the EU merger regulator must be allowed to depart from guidelines in novel cases, the head of the European Commission’s competition department said today....

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