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February 07, 2012 | BY
clpstaff &clp articlesA new regulation shows China's competition regulator is serious about proactive enforcement of the country's merger-control regime
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Late last year, China's Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) adopted a regulation setting out the procedural framework under which the Anti-monopoly Bureau will go about investigating and sanctioning reportable merger transactions implemented without seeking prior merger-control clearance.
The Tentative Measures for the Investigation and Handling of Failures to Report Concentrations of Business Operators in Accordance with the Law (未依法申报经营者集中调查处理暂行办法) were issued on December 30 2011 and took effect on February 1 2012.