Lowe's notes from an ABA workshop, an ERA - Academy of European Law meeting, and the Merger Task Force Reflection Day. Subjects include: merger control, competition policy, confidentiality and access to files, role of hearings, and quantitive techniques. Also includes: article from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Kein Horrorstück aus der Gruselkammer"; follow-up document to the conclusions of the 1993 Report from the Commission to the Council on the implementation of the Merger Regulation; not on the idea of an independent Cartel Office; report on the Commission's practice on modifications submitted in Phase I and Phase II; (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); chronological lists of deicisons taken between 18/9/1990 and 26/9/1990 (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); article "An overview of merger control during the 2nd quarter" by Milvia van Rij from EC Competition Policy Newsletter; list of notifications (CONFIDENTIAL - removed until further notice); Bundeskartellamt document giving the minutes of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Merger Control; paper "Zukünftige Entwicklungen des Europäisches Wettbewrbrechts" by Claus-Dieter Ehlerich, Director General for Competition; opinions of Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie and Freshfields on procedural improvements to the EC merger regulation.

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