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COMESA Competition Policy Evidence Brief

A research note on product-market regulation and reported merger-control activity. The two sources retain separate reference periods, definitions, and coverage.

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Regional authority
Overall PMR
Not published
Not published for this scope
2024 Phase One clearances
48
#31 of 58
COMESA regional scopeCOMESA is a regional authority, so no single economy geometry is highlighted.
Regional authority frameCOMESA / COMESAAuthority scope is retained without assigning country geometry.

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What this evidence packet says

The selected measures shape this note; the full source snapshots remain below.
  1. 01

    The PMR release does not publish a regulatory-framework packet for COMESA; this lane remains unavailable rather than imputed.

  2. 02

    COMESA reported 48 phase one clearances in 2024, ranked 31 of 58 published jurisdiction values.

  3. 03

    The regulatory snapshot and annual activity count use different source clocks and meanings. Their proximity on this page is a research navigation aid, not a composite score or effectiveness finding.

Regulation snapshot

Nine PMR measures, one dated framework

Not published for this scope

No PMR economy packet

This scope is not present in the current Product Market Regulation release. No value, date, or rank is inferred.

Annual authority activity

2024 merger-control snapshot

2015-2024 annual reported activity
Phase One clearances without remedies48#31 of 58 / focus 2024
COMESA Phase One clearances without remedies, 2015-2024Annual reported values. Missing years are shown as gaps.532702015: 52016: 32017: 52018: 102019: 32020: 242021: 242022: 402023: 262024: 484820152024
Counts are source-reported activity, not enforcement quality, deterrence, or market outcomes.
Measure2024Change from 2023Rank
NotificationsMerger notifications reported to competition authorities.
56+17#31 of 58
DecisionsMerger decisions reported by competition authorities.
48+19#32 of 58
Phase One clearancesPhase One or single-phase clearances without remedies.
48+22#31 of 58
Phase One remediesPhase One or single-phase clearances with remedies.
0-2#30 of 58
Phase Two clearancesPhase Two clearances after an in-depth investigation without remedies.
Not publishedNo comparisonNot ranked
Phase Two remediesPhase Two clearances with remedies.
Not publishedNo comparisonNot ranked
ProhibitionsPhase One or Phase Two prohibitions, challenges, or trials.
0-1#31 of 58
WithdrawalsNotifications withdrawn by merging parties.
1+1#25 of 58

Interpretation boundary

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This bridge aligns OECD Product Market Regulation economy codes with OECD Competition Trends economy-jurisdiction codes for navigation across two separate releases. PMR values describe encoded regulatory frameworks on a 0-6 scale at economy-specific reference dates. Competition Trends values count reported merger-control activity in 2015-2024. Positions, ranks, gaps, changes, and co-movement do not measure market concentration, enforcement quality, deterrence, welfare, institutional effectiveness, legal correctness, or causation.Economies join only when the two OECD releases publish the same exact economy code and name. No fuzzy name matching, imputation, forward filling, or composite score is used. Forty-seven economies join across both releases; PMR-only and enforcement-only economies remain visible as one-sided evidence records. EU and COMESA are retained separately as regional authorities and are not treated as economies in the bridge.

Source custody

Product Market Regulation Indicators, 2023 methodologyOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Period
current reference years 2023, 2024, 2025 / recalculated 2018
Reviewed
2026-07-24
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A Decade of OECD Competition Trends, Data and InsightsOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Period
2015-2024
Reviewed
2026-07-24
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Publication record

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current edition
International Competition Policy Evidence BriefsAR-ICP-2026-66Version 1.0
Author
Antitrust Radar Research Team
Published
Updated
Sources reviewed
Antitrust Radar Research Team. (2026, August 12). COMESA Competition Policy Evidence Brief. International Competition Policy Evidence Briefs, AR-ICP-2026-66 (Version 1.0). Antitrust Radar. https://antitrustradar.org/research/international/comesa
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