Titlebook: Chinese Merger Control Law; An Assessment of its Tingting Weinreich-Zhao Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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Introduction,n law, the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”), was promulgated on 30 August 2007 and entered into force one year later on 1 August 2008. The AML introduced to China a legal framework to prevent and restrict monopolistic conducts that affect competition in the Chinese market, with provisions targeted against

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Economic Background of Competition Policy in China,market structures in China. The AML is embedded in the general economic and legal environment in China, and the political and social characteristics that are unique to China have contributed to the formation of Chinese competition policy. The following analysis will therefore shed some light on the

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Historical Development of Chinese Merger Control Regime,ss developed, merger review regime prior to the adoption of the AML, which had only been targeted at foreign M&A. The following will highlight some characteristics of this previous merger control regime and trace back the difficulties and challenges the legislature had to overcome when it adopted th

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Objectives and Policy Standards of Merger Control as Embodied in the AML,policies has also been explicitly inscribed into the wording of the AML. The following analysis will examine in depth the objectives pursued by the legislature of the AML and discuss which policy standards are embodied therein. One important and valuable source of interpretation for the goals that t

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Overview of Published Decisions, the practical implementation of these policies. Before the scope of application, the review process and the substantive test will be discussed in depth, the merger decisions that MOFCOM has published so far under the AML will be briefly outlined. In this chapter, only some basic facts and the subst