Ex-post Review of Merger Control Decisions

This study has been commissioned by the Competition Directorate- General of the European Commission (from hereon DG Competition) to develop “a detailed methodological approach for the ex-post review of European Commission decisions in the field of merger control, namely for assessing the impact of the Commission decision on market developments” and to apply “the afore-mentioned methodological approach to a particular case”: the merger between the power cable producers Pirelli and BICC1. Hence this study is articulated in two Parts: Part I which discusses the theory and presents the methodology, and Part II which describes its application to the case study.