Merger control, green paper (amend. regul. 4064/89/EEC)

In adopting the report by Mr Bernhard RAPKAY (PSE, D) on the Commission's Green Paper on the review of the merger regulation, Parliament advocated a significant reduction of the thresholds, and specifically a reduction to ECU 2 billion of worldwide turnover and ECU 100 million of Community turnover. In view of the Council's resistance to too drastic a reduction, Parliament called on it to approve at least the figures now proposed of ECU 3 billion of worldwide turnover and ECU 150 million of Community turnover. It also called on the Commission to review the two-thirds rule critically. �