Notes and reports, includes: brief for Sutherland’s telephone call with Bangemann on merger control. Summary of the Coreper meeting 9 June 1988 in Luxembourg: primacy of community law and residual competence of Member States, preventative merger control involving compulsory prior notification and automatic suspension of the merger, criteria for Commission intervention and prohibition of mergers. Council report on amended proposal for a Council regulation on the control of concentrations of undertakings; Speaking note merger control – 22 June 1988. Cabinet note for Sutherland on discussion in Parliament on merger control regulation. Consolidated text of the draft regulation; Amended proposal for a Council regulation (EEC) on the control of concentrations between undertakings, 25 July 1988

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