The purchase of Activision Blizzard is being, without a doubt, the most important news of the end of the year. With the procedure currently open on three different fronts of great repercussion (CMA, EU and USA), the truth is that it continues to advance in other lesser-known bodies. And it is that, just a few hours ago, it has been confirmed that the purchase of Activision Blizzard is approved by the Republic of Serbia.
This has been communicated by the country’s own Competition Protection Agency through a nine-page statement, where they assured that the acquisition did not imply a violation of the country’s competition regulations, so They have decided to give the green light to the operation.
Activision Blizzard purchase is approved by Serbia
Therefore, the Republic of Serbia joins other countries that had already confirmed that they approved the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, such as Brazil or Saudi Arabia. It’s a matter of time to see if there will be more territories that join the list of these countriesalthough for the moment the most important thing is to see how the situation unfolds in the larger organizations, such as those mentioned above.
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Taking all of the above into account, the Commission declared that the concentration in question will not harm competition in the reference markets, evaluating that there are no problems with respect to any criteria to assess the permissibility of the concentration of Art. 19 of the Law Therefore, it was decided as in section I of the operative part of this decision.
If, if necessary, the CMA or the EU body gave the green light to the acquisition of the owners of Call of Duty, it is very likely that a chain effect would occur, in which the rest of the body would follow a similar criterion. . Although, at least for the moment, that is something that only time will tell.