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China to refine penalty scales for anticompetitive mergers as cases build

By MLex Staff ( March 25, 2025, 07:40 GMT | Insight) -- China will develop detailed penalty scales for anticompetitive merger violations as it gains more experience with these types of cases, since the guidance released today only outlines principles-based rules for such cases, while providing detailed penalty criteria for notification failures that do not involve competition concerns.China will develop detailed penalty scales for anticompetitive merger violations as it gains more experience with these types of cases, since the guidance released today (see here) only outlines principles-based rules for such cases, while providing detailed penalty criteria for notification failures that do not involve competition concerns....

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