ERT’s response to European Commission’s Merger Guidelines consultation

At a moment when Europe is recalibrating its competitiveness strategy – amid intensifying global competition, rapid technological change and mounting investment needs – this latest ERT paper provides our response to the European Commission’s consultation on the draft new Merger Guidelines, as part of its effort to modernise EU merger control.

ERT’s consultation response offers an informed and experience-based critique from Europe’s industrial front line, combining legal precision with strategic urgency. It not only identifies inconsistencies in the Commission’s draft text but also proposes concrete fixes to ensure merger policy reinforces innovation, scale, resilience and global competitiveness, rather than inadvertently constraining them.

Download the paper here