Merging for a sustainable future: integrating sustainability-driven efficiency claims into the merger control assessment

Q4 Social Sciences Competition Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.4337/clj.2023.02.04
Gönenç Gürkaynak, Zeynep Ayata Aydoğan, Ersagun Berkay Kiltan, Beyza Nur Adıgüzel
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In the assessment of efficiencies, the European Commission narrowly interprets the conditions set out in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines which must be satisfied for each efficiency claim. Considering certain features of sustainability-driven efficiency claims, if the Commission maintains its current approach in analysing these claims, it may disproportionately limit the success of such claims. To avoid any impediment to the pursuit of sustainable goals through mergers, the Commission’s approach to the relevant conditions should change. There are some alternative models and means of assessment of efficiency claims that can be used to strike the right balance between promoting competition and sustainability.
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为可持续的未来而合并:将可持续性驱动的效率要求整合到合并控制评估中
在效率评估中,欧盟委员会狭义地解释了横向合并指南中规定的条件,这些条件必须满足每个效率要求。考虑到可持续能力驱动的效率要求的某些特点,如果委员会在分析这些要求时保持目前的方法,可能会不成比例地限制这种要求的成功。为了避免任何阻碍通过合并实现可持续目标的因素,委员会应对有关条件的做法应予改变。有一些可供选择的模型和方法来评估效率主张,可以用来在促进竞争和可持续性之间取得适当的平衡。
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Competition Law Journal
Competition Law Journal Social Sciences-Law
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