caa a22 4500 605462720 CHVBK 20210128100249.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10991-015-9161-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10991-015-9161-z Davison Leigh Hull University Business School, University of Hull, Hull, UK aut EU Merger Control: A Set of Proposals to Enhance the Operational Effectiveness of the Current Architecture of Separate Jurisdictional Zones [Elektronische Daten] [Leigh Davison] The paper documents the failure of the EU's current merger control architecture to address the misallocation problem and proposes changes to the architecture which would virtually eliminate this major concern. This will streamline the working of the architecture by removing the need for correctives to either prevent misallocation or reassign cases that have been misallocated. Moreover, and just as importantly, the resolution of this problem will improve the application of the principle of subsidiarity in merger cases and bring to an end the multiple notification issue, thereby strengthening the operation of the one-stop shop approach. The changes to the architecture and how they interact to virtually end the misallocation problem and thereby bring about the aforementioned benefits are revealed. More specifically, it demonstrates how the use of the three or more Member state notification rule and the distinct market test, the retention of the existing two Community Dimension tests and the two-thirds rule, as well as the shared competence of the Competition Directorate and Member state regulators to apply EU merger law, albeit intentionally in different situations, reinforce each other to resolve the stated problem. Moreover, this limited sharing of the right to apply EU merger law—currently the EU Commission has the exclusive right—allied with other forms of envisaged cooperation between the regulators is not just simply a reinterpretation of the Commission's most appropriate authority goal but also the possible beginnings of a more cooperative architecture, relative to the current architecture of separate jurisdictional zones, aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of merger control within the Union. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 EU merger control nationallicence Architecture of separate jurisdictional zones nationallicence Misallocation problem nationallicence Multiple notification issue nationallicence Liverpool Law Review Springer Netherlands 36/1(2015-04-01), 33-48 0144-932X 36:1<33 2015 36 10991 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-015-9161-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-015-9161-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Davison Leigh Hull University Business School, University of Hull, Hull, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Liverpool Law Review Springer Netherlands 36/1(2015-04-01), 33-48 0144-932X 36:1<33 2015 36 10991