BRUSSELS—NetChoice submitted comments last night for the European Commission’s Review of its Merger Guidelines. We welcomed the opportunity to help the Commission modernize its merger policies for the digital age.
In our filing, we urge the Commission to support European competitiveness and creativity by focusing their updated guidelines on consumer welfare, appreciating that mergers generate innovation, and shying away from theories of harm rather than evidence. Such adjustments would help “ground revisions in sound economic principles and empirical evidence.”
“Europe’s innovative sector is lagging behind, and NetChoice welcomes the opportunity to urge the Commission to take a new path,” said Amy Bos, NetChoice Director of State & Federal Affairs. “Getting merger policy right is important to help address these challenges, and we urge the EU to reject failing progressive market theories and refocus merger rules on what should be the primary concern: the welfare of European consumers, not individual competitors.”
Read NetChoice’s comments to the EC here.
Please contact press@netchoice.org with inquiries.
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