ICN MERGER GUIDELINES WORKBOOK

The Workbook follows on from the ‘ICN Project on Merger Guidelines’, a comparative study of merger guidelines discussed at the ICN’s second annual conference in Merida in 2003 and finalised for the 2004 conference in Seoul. 2 The study concluded that – notwithstanding differences in the precise wording of various substantive merger test there are relatively few fundamental differences among the available merger guidelines and they have a great deal in common. This Workbook is designed to represent a useful sourcebook on a framework for analysing the competition effects of mergers. This first edition of the Workbook, prepared for delivery at the fifth ICN conference in Cape Town, is built upon discussions and feedback on a preliminary draft presented at the fourth annual ICN conference in Bonn and on previous ICN work. T