Meanings of antitrust legislation in inglês

Last week, the merger cleared American antitrust legislation and now only needs the approval of both sets of shareholders.

But after more than a century of intervening to keep markets honest, U.S. antitrust legislation is proving inadequate to the task.

The possible measure needs to be approved by the European Commission, which is in charge of overseeing the application of antitrust legislation.

Yet the Justice Department, which is responsible for regulating near-monopolies like Amazon and applying U.S. antitrust legislation, is ignoring Amazon's harrying of Hachette.

One problem is current antitrust legislation focuses on what the market share of the combined entity would be to determine whether it would hurt competition.

The ruling, in line with earlier verdicts, could make it more difficult for the Commission to use antitrust legislation to extend the EU single market.

The significance of the decision from the country's Bundeskartellamt -the federal cartel office that handles antitrust actions -notably pairs privacy and antitrust legislation.