Federal Act
on Cartels and other
Restraints of Competition
(Cartel Act, CartA)

¹ On re­ceiv­ing a no­ti­fic­a­tion of a planned con­cen­tra­tion of un­der­tak­ings (Art. 9), the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion de­cides if there are grounds for con­duct­ing an in­vest­ig­a­tion. The Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion no­ti­fies the un­der­tak­ings con­cerned of the open­ing of an in­vest­ig­a­tion with­in one month of re­ceiv­ing the no­ti­fic­a­tion. If no such no­tice is giv­en with­in that time peri­od, the con­cen­tra­tion may be im­ple­men­ted without re­ser­va­tion.

² The un­der­tak­ings con­cerned must re­frain from im­ple­ment­ing the con­cen­tra­tion for one month fol­low­ing the no­ti­fic­a­tion un­less the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion has at their re­quest au­thor­ised them to do so for good cause.