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Core documents

The key documents related to the joint review can be downloaded below. Further documents, including working papers, will be added here as they become available. All files are pdf unless stated.

OFT and CC joint review of substantive merger guidelines


The Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission have published the full transcripts of two roundtable sessions, held on 2 October 2008 as part of their joint merger guidelines review project. See the transcripts.

Merger references: Competition Commission Guidelines (CC2)

Mergers: substantive assessment guidance (OFT 516)

Guidance note revising Mergers: substantive assessment guidance (OFT 516a)

Revision to Mergers: substantive assessment guidance - Exception to the duty to refer: markets of insufficient importance (OFT 516b)

Submissions received

Responses to initial call for comments on CC2 - these are available on the Competition Commission website.




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