Defining the Relevant Market of Horizontal Mergers under the Anti-Monopoly Law in China —What Can China Learn from the EU?

Sammanfattning: This thesis discusses the definition of relevant market in both European Union and China under horizontal merger control. The AML was published in 2008 and took EU Competition law as an important reference. Comparing to the EU, the legislation and law enforcement of merger control in China is relatively limited. What can China learn from the EU and its abundant experience in Competition law? How to improve the skills of defining the relevant market? And further, how to improve transparency on both case decisions and judicial reviews in China? Through the comparisons with the EU, suggestions on further development of the relevant market definition in China will be proposed.