企业合并反垄断审查的国际冲突与协调

The International Conflicts and Coordination of Undertaking Concentration Antimonopoly Review

自20世纪以来,跨国并购风起云涌。特别是,由于快速发展的高新技术与互联网行业具有的边际成本递减、边际收益递增、网络外部性和规模经济性等特点,以谷歌为代表的新经济行业公司大量通过跨国并购的方式进行产业整合或进入新市场,以充分发挥规模优势、协调效应和企业间的优势互补。跨国并购常常涉及多个司法辖区的反垄断审查,不同司法辖区竞争执法机构对待交易的立场、审查程序和结论均有不同,由此而引发的国际合作与协调日益引起人们的关注。

In this essay, we start from introduction of international conflicts in the antitrust review of merger of enterprises to explain the conflicts arising from review conclusions and review procedures, and analyze the characteristics of the conflicts in the new economy on this basis. Next, we analyze the reasons causing such international conflicts, and discuss the rejection against the extraterritorial jurisdiction under the effect principle from the differences arising from legislation objectives and enforcement ideas and the extraterritorial jurisdiction arising from the effect principle. Finally, we make detailed analysis and discussion on ways of coordination in international conflicts, taking as examples the practice of experienced law enforcement authorities in US and Europe, and taking consideration of MOFCOM’s practice in case review,and set forth the practical significance and feasible approach in realizing the coordination in international conflicts from such three aspects as improving the efficiency and transparency of case review, strengthening cooperation between enforcement authorities and promoting the coordination between the competition policy and other policies.