Article 25Procedural rules applicable to the preliminary review and the in-depth investigation of notified concentrations

1. Articles 10, 11(1), (3) and (4), Articles 12 to 16 and 18 shall apply to notified concentrations.

2. The Commission may initiate an in-depth investigation under Article 10(3) no later than 25 working days after receipt of the complete notification.

3. After the in-depth investigation, the Commission shall adopt an implementing act in the form of one of the following decisions:

(a)

a decision with commitments pursuant to Article 11(3);

(b)

a no objection decision pursuant to Article 11(4); or

(c)

a decision prohibiting a concentration, where the Commission finds that a foreign subsidy distorts the internal market pursuant to Articles 4 to 6.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 48(2).

4. Decisions pursuant to paragraph 3 shall be adopted within 90 working days after the opening of the in-depth investigation, extended as the case may be pursuant to Article 24(1), point (b), and paragraphs (4) and (5). If the Commission does not adopt a decision within that time limit, the undertakings concerned shall be allowed to implement the concentration.

5. In any request for information to an undertaking, the Commission shall specify whether time limits will be suspended pursuant to Article 24(5), in the event the undertaking fails to provide complete information in the prescribed time limit.

6. The Commission may, where it finds that a concentration notifiable under Article 21(1) or notified upon request of the Commission under Article 21(5) has already been implemented and that foreign subsidies in that concentration distort the internal market pursuant to Articles 4, 5 and 6, adopt one of the following measures:

(a)

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