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COMPETITION COMMISSION: PRE-MERGER FILING CONSULTATION GUIDELINES PUBLISHED
- 16 February 2026
- Trade, Industry & Competition
- SA Legal Academy
The Competition Commission has published final guidelines on the pre-merger filing consultation process.
Released in draft form in October 2025 for public comment, the new guidelines are expected to ‘improve the efficiency of merger review processes’ by:
- avoiding merger assessment delays
- preparing grounds for an objective, balanced competitive assessment
- ensuring that sufficient attention is aid to public interest issues, and
- selecting suitable potential purchasers or acquirers in line with South Africa’s merger control regime.
This is noting that – since ‘merger analysis is dependent on the facts of a specific case’ – the guidelines ‘are not intended to be applied mechanically’.
- final guidelines
- Government Gazette notice
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