Robert Gago, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

Merger remedies – Hopes for a new approach

Robert Gago (Hogan Lovells )/November 10, 2014 /Leave a comment

The recent practice of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (the “OCCP”) shows that conditional clearance decisions are becoming more common. In 2014, the OCCP issued four conditional merger decisions, which is more than the total number of conditional decisions issued in 2012 and 2013. In this post we will discuss…

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Amendments to Poland’s competition law regime – toughening of the antitrust enforcement regime and simplification of merger control procedure

Robert Gago (Hogan Lovells )/June 19, 2014 /Leave a comment

Last week, the Polish Lower Chamber of Parliament agreed final changes to Poland’s competition law regime. The new regime, which will be implemented by amendments to the Polish Act on Competition and Consumer Protection, is likely to come into force at the beginning of 2015. Whilst the amendments simplify and accelerate merger control proceedings, they…