§ Mr. BowisTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what progress has been made on the negotiations on European Community merger control regulation.
§ Mr. Redwood[pursuant to his reply, 24 November, c. 41]: I should like to point to a typographical error which led to the omission of some of the text in the fourth sentence. The fourth sentence should now read:
There has been general agreement about the threshold levels of 5 billion ECU worldwide turnover; 250 million ECU Community-wide turnover in each of at least two of the undertakings concerned; unless 66 per cent. of the Community-wide turnover is in one and the same Member State.