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April 2023 global merger control: UK DCCB reforms, EU simplification, and developments in Australia, Indonesia, Zambia, plus gun-jumping penalties

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This month witnessed the UK Government laying before Parliament the much-anticipated Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, ushering in extensive updates to competition and consumer rules (among them revisions to the CMA’s remit to assess mergers); the European Commission unveiling substantial measures to streamline the EUMR merger review; the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission urging a comprehensive reset of Australia’s merger control system; higher notification thresholds in Zambia; and Indonesia’s competition authority confirming a reshaped merger control framework together with the rollout of a merger filing fee.

UK—Government introduces the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill

On 25 April 2025, the UK Government presented the long-awaited Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DCCB). The DCCB is broad in reach and spans three principal strands: (i) establishing a fresh regulatory regime for major digital platforms; (ii) the first significant overhaul of UK competition law in ten years; and (iii) a revamp of UK consumer protection legislation. Regarding merger control changes, the DCCB introduces a number of notable revisions to the jurisdictional tests within the UK merger control system, as well as to the processes for conducting merger inquiries. Jurisdictional thresholds Under the Bill, the CMA’s existing...

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