Galina Petkova, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

CPC activity during COVID-19 crisis

Galina Petkova (Schoenherr)/April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 /1 Comment

On 13 March 2020 the government declared a national state of emergency as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The state of emergency is currently in force until 13 May. This article outlines the impact of this declaration on Commission for Protection of the Competition (CPC) activities. CPC operations Currently, the CPC is operating…

Bulgaria, Merger control

Bulgarian watchdog introduces simplified and more extensive merger filing in new merger filing guidelines

Galina Petkova (Schoenherr)/February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 /Leave a comment

From 1 January 2020, the Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (the “CPC”) has been applying new merger filing guidelines (the “Guidelines”). The former guidelines, applied for more than ten years, did not differentiate between transactions (simpler or more complex) irrespectively of their potential competition concerns. This unified approach was unnecessarily bureaucratic with regard…