To whom are the Orange Reports addressed?

The Orange Reports are an essential tool for professional advisors on competition policy and law who advice companies in the relevant sector. They will find a detailed and comprehensive analysis of relevant precedents, as well as a tool to quickly identify the closest precedents to the particular case they are dealing with.

The Orange Report is also addressed to legal directors, directors of strategy in companies in the relevant sector. They will find an invaluable tool to assess and limit the regulatory risks their M&A operations, and/or certain commercial practices entail.

What are the Orange Reports ?

The Orange Reports include a selection and thorough analysis of all important merger decisions adopted by the European Commission in a particular industry or sector since 1990. The first report, for instance, covers 159 decisions where the companies involved manufacture consumer branded goods subsequently distributed through large retail chains.

The Orange Reports contain a thorough analysis of the substantive economic assessment carried out by the Commission in the selected decisions. The reports contain hyperlinks to the text of the relevant decisions where policy aspects where decided by the European Commission, or where the Commission decided important elements of the competition analysis in the relevant sector. Dozens of tables and graphics allow to quickly identifying any precedent in a particular market in the sector. The supporting documentation contains the main legal texts applicable to merger control and the main merger decisions adopted in the sector.

The reports provide answers to questions such as:

• In what cases in the relevant sector has the Commission considered coordinated effects?
• Which are the types of divestitures that have brought about a conditional clearance?
• In which cases where the commitments offered by the parties rejected and why?
• Does the Commission intervene with more severity in the sector, relative to the rest of the economy?
• How are the relations with clients or distributors assessed? What have clients and distributors told to the Commission in previous mergers in the sector?

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