On 6 May 2020 the government lifted the state of emergency which had been declared on 15 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing normal operations to gradually resume.
As a result, all deadlines for the Commission for the Protection of Competition and parties to proceedings that ended between 24 March 2020 and 6 May 2020 are now deemed to end on 5 June 2020. This includes:
- the submission of merger notifications; and
- responses to requests for information, decisions and clearances.
The standard deadlines apply to all other cases.
