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Companies face looser ‘contribution’ threshold under foreign-subsidies regulation, new draft implementing rules show

By Tono Gil, Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
  • 24 May 2023 19:55
  • 24 May 2023 20:22
Companies involved in mergers or public procurement in the EU would have to notify certain foreign “financial contributions” worth over 1 million euros ($1.1 million) — far higher than previously anticipated — under changes to draft rules intended to implement the EU’s new power to patrol foreign subsidies.
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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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