This guide provides a summary of the Italian merger control rules and covers the following most recent changes:
- The new test for the assessment of anticompetitive effects
- The new scope of the jurisdiction of the Italian competition authority, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenze e del Mercato (AGCM)
- The new methodology for the calculation of turnovers for companies in the financial sector
- New rules applicable to the assessment of joint ventures
- Extended investigative powers of the AGCM
