Merger Remedies: Federal Antitrust Service and European Competition Commission compared

The article examines the practice of pre-merger notification and merger remedies by Russian antimonopoly authority FAS (on the example of the largest mergers approved in 2006-2008) based on a comparison with the practice of the EU Competition Commission. Analysis of markets competition by FAS is shifted towards the straightforward assessment of structure (primarily - measurement of concentration). The structure of remedies is dominated by behavioral (conduct) requirements, many of them cannot be effective and some may impose on unreasonably high risks on market participants.