CHINA Law and Practice Contributed by: Liu Cheng, Li Yumeng, Ye Hongtao and Jiang Hanxue, King & Wood
other ancillary business arrangement between them in the filing form.
negotiate with the parties in respect of the remedies and request them to submit other remedy proposals. 7.3 Confidentiality The notification form and relevant supporting docu - ments will not be disclosed to the public. For cases reviewed under the simplified procedure, once for - mally accepted, there will be a ten-day public notice period, during which the SAMR will release a public announcement form on its official website. The pub - lication form includes the name of the transaction, the parties to the concentration, a basic description of the transaction, the main business and ultimate controller(s) of the parties, the reasons for applying simplified procedures, market definition and the range of market shares. For both the simplified and normal procedures, the SAMR will publish a list of cases granted clearance in the next quarter, including the name of the transac - tion, the parties to the concentration and the date of approval. For prohibited or conditionally approved cases, the SAMR will publish a detailed decision including the review timetable, the competition analysis employed by the SAMR and the supplementary conditions, and the confidential information will be redacted. For cases under the normal procedure, the notifying parties may submit a public version and a confidential version of the notification documents and materials, and request that trade secrets or other commercial information be kept confidential. On 4 December 2025, the SAMR released three repre - sentative cases under the normal procedure, in which key facts of the notifications were disclosed, including the parties to the concentration, a basic description of the transaction, the relevant markets and business relationships, the range of market shares, and com - petition analysis, while other information was still kept confidential. 7.4 Co-Operation With Other Jurisdictions The SAMR may co-operate with its counterparts in other jurisdictions. Since its establishment, the SAMR has entered into memorandums of understanding
7. Third-Party Rights, Confidentiality and Cross-Border Co-Operation 7.1 Third-Party Rights Pursuant to the Provisions on Concentration Review, third parties may be involved in the review process to voice their opinions in the following ways: • the SAMR may solicit opinions from the relevant government authorities, industry associations, undertakings, consumers, experts, scholars and other entities or individuals by means of written solicitations, symposiums, demonstration meet - ings, questionnaires, consultations, on-site sur - veys, etc; and • the SAMR may, on its own initiative or in response to a request from relevant parties, decide to convene hearings at which the participants may include parties to the concentration, competi - tors, representatives of upstream and downstream undertakings, experts, representatives of indus - try associations, representatives of government authorities, and consumers. For simple cases during the public notice period, third parties may submit written opinions to the SAMR as to whether the simplified procedure should be applied to the case in question, and to provide relevant evidence and contact information. 7.2 Contacting Third Parties The SAMR may solicit opinions from third parties at its discretion. This is more common when cases are filed under the normal procedure. This may take the form of written solicitations, symposiums, demonstration meetings, questionnaires, consultations, on-site sur - veys, etc. The SAMR will evaluate the effectiveness, feasibility and timeliness of the remedies offered by the parties. In its evaluation, the SAMR may carry out market tests to solicit opinions from third parties on the proposed remedies. If the SAMR deems that the remedies offered would not reduce the adverse effect of the concentration on competition sufficiently, it may
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