The merger between Dow and DuPont, two US-based chemicals companies, was approved by the European Commission subject to extensive conditions. Besides price-related effects, serious concerns were raised as regards the effects of the merger on innovation competition in the crop protection...

In Europe, the merger between Oracle and Sun raised a series of substantial competition concerns, especially related to the acquisition by Oracle of MySQL, an open source business, and its impact on the database market. In the end, the acquisition was unconditionally cleared by the Commission....