User talk:AchalOza
Austria 2006 Merger Notification
The statute requires mandatory notification, but does not state whether it is pre or post. I've found this secondary source material. It states that the merger cannot take place until clearance, does that imply pre-merger notification?
http://www.iclg.co.uk/khadmin/Publications/pdf/591.pdf
3.5 At what stage in the transaction timetable can the notification be filed?
Basically a notification can be filed as soon as the parties have agreed on all relevant terms of the transaction. As already mentioned above, the Cartel Act does not set out any deadlines for notification. However, a concentration must not be implemented before clearance.
--AchalOza 15:24, 24 July 2007 (EDT)
Hylton: call this pre-merger notification. --AchalOza 10:19, 25 July 2007 (EDT)
Algeria 2003 Obstacles to Entry
Below is Algeria's definition of dominance (using Google Translator). Does this sound like obstacles to entry language? Perhaps we should have a translator look at it.
Article 3(c) - Dominant Position: the position allowing a company to hold, on the market in question, a position of economic power which gives him the capacity to make obstacle with the maintenance of an effective competition, by providing him the possibility of independent behaviors in an appreciable measurement with respect to its competitors, of its customers or its suppliers;
--AchalOza 08:01, 11 September 2007 (EDT)
Algeria 2000 Tying
One of the criteria for establishing an abusive dominant position includes being able to create advantageous contractual bonds. Would this just be another abusive act prohibition, or tying under RTP? The text below was translated with Google.
Article 2 - The criteria of determination of the dominant position of an economic agent on a market or a market segment of goods or services are in particular: financial, contractual bonds or in fact which bind the economic agent to one or more economic agents and which get advantages of any nature to him;
--AchalOza 08:08, 11 September 2007 (EDT)