By Rahul Saha and Cameron Firth. King & Wood Mallesons
OMESA: An overviewThe Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a supra-national organisation with 19 Member States – Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland,
By Cameron Firth and Rahul Saha, King & Wood Mallesons
The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (“COMESA”) is a supra-national organisation with 19 Member States, which are Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The COMESA Competition Commission (the “CCC”) commenced operations on 14 January 2013 and implements a supra-national merger control regime under the COMESA Competition Rules and COMESA Competition Regulations 2004 (the “Regulations”). In response to calls for greater clarity and legal certainty, COMESA published the Draft Merger Assessment Guidelines in April 2013 (the “Draft Guidelines”). While the Draft Guidelines provided some clarification on certain ambiguities in the Regulations, a number of issues remained unresolved.
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作者：Cameron Firth和Rahul Saha 金杜律师事务所
东部和南部非洲共同市场（“COMESA”）是一个多国组织，有19个成员国，即布隆迪、科摩罗、刚果民主共和国、吉布提、埃及、厄立特里亚、埃塞俄比亚、肯尼亚、马达加斯加、马拉维、毛里求斯、纳米比亚、卢旺达、塞舌尔、苏丹、斯威士兰、乌干达、赞比亚和津巴布韦。
COMESA竞争委员会（“CCC”）于2013年1月14日开始运行，并根据《COMESA竞争规则》及《2004年COMESA竞争条例》（“条例”）实行多国的合并控制制度。为了制度更加清晰及具有法律确定性，COMESA于2013年4月颁布了《合并评估指引草案》（“指引草案”）。尽管指引草案对条例中的模糊部分进行了澄清，一些问题仍未得到解决。
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