FSR Complaints Seen Taking Back Seat to Merger Notifications for EC at Outset – Analysis

Carole Maczkovics’ commentary was included in a PaRR Global article analyzing the status of guidelines for complaints brought under the new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR).

Carole said she expected that the European Commission will prioritize notifications and pre-notification discussions, at least in the early stages of application of the FSR, for several reasons.

The FSR is a new instrument that needs to be tested and the teams in charge of the FSR are reportedly understaffed, Carole said. Meanwhile, the Commission is bound by statutory time limits to review notifications which, combined with the amount of information to be reported, would probably require a sizeable amount of work, she believed.