French Competition Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: General Introduction
Part 2: Unfair Competition
Part 3: Commercial negotiation
Part 4: Restrictive Agreements and Abuse of Dominance
Part 5: Competition procedure
Title 1: Introduction
Title 2: Sphere of control
Section 1: Assessment
Section 2: Relevant market
I: Concept
III: Non-horizontal mergers
Section 4: Coordinated effects/Collective dominant position
Section 5: Countervailing effects
Section 6: Failing company defense
Chapter 2: Contribution to economic progress/Efficiency gains
Chapter 3: Public interest grounds
Chapter 4: Remedies
Chapter 5: Prohibition of the transaction or de-merger
Title 4: Control procedure
560. Horizontal mergers
1 minute de lecture
Horizontal mergers refer to those mergers taking place between existing or potential competitors on the same market. Such mergers are harmful to competition insofar as they increase the market power i.e. their power to raise prices by reducing the diversity of products and services available on the market or the frequency of innovation of the merging undertakings. Even without actually creating o …
