– Recasting of the different horizontal labelling provisions. The merging of those texts (directives) into a single piece of legislation (regulation) will maximise synergies and increase the clarity and consistency of Community rules.

Reports were commissioned on the integration of consumer interests into the revision of the regulation on merger control and the guidelines on horizontal mergers, and on Common Agricultural Policy reform and consumers interests[31] .

The simplified procedure followed by the Commission concerns merger transactions: (a) where the joint venture's turnover and total assets are each less than 100 million; (b) where, in the case of a merger or of acquisition of sole or joint control of another undertaking, the parties are not engaged in business activities on the same market as any other party to the merger; (c) where, in the case of a merger or of acquisition of sole or joint control of another undertaking, the parties are engaged in business activities on the same market as another party to the merger but their combined market share is not 15% or more for horizontal relationships and 2 ...[+++]5% or more for vertical relationships.

The simplified procedure followed by the Commission concerns merger transactions: (a) where the joint venture's turnover and total assets are each less than 100 million; (b) where, in the case of a merger or of acquisition of sole or joint control of another undertaking, the parties are not engaged in business activities on the same market as any other party to the merger; (c) where, in the case of a merger or of acquisition of sole or joint control of another undertaking, the parties are engaged in business activities on the same market as another party to the merger but their combined market share is not 15% or more for horizontal relationships and 2 ...[+++]5% or more for vertical relationships.

3. Vertical and Horizontal Short-form Amalgamations (Clause 208)

We are in a journey of going from interconnecting some of those systems to truly integrating and moving information horizontally across them, and eventually to what we call " fusion," where you buy it completely integrated.