English abstract
In light of the increasing number of commercial companies' mergers and their impacts,
the Omani legislator realized the importance to organize the markets in order to
protect the competition and prevent monopolistic practices which will cause negative
impact on markets and competitors, as well as on consumers and the economic
system.
This thesis aims to study the adequacy of the legislative provisions of the commercial
companies' merger and its alignment with the provisions of the competition
protection and prevent the monopoly according to the Omani law, to minimize the
merger's impact on the competition. Furthermore, it aims to identify the role of the
Center for Competition Protection and Prevention of Monopoly in this regard. The first
chapter covers the provisions of the commercial companies' merger, which regulated
under the Commercial Companies Law promulgated by Royal Decree No. (18/2019) as
deemed necessary to identify the impact of merger on competition according to the
provisions of the Competition Protection and Monopoly Prevention Law promulgated
by Royal Decree No. (67/2014) which will be discussed in detail in the second chapter.
The third and final chapter is devoted to clarifying the role of the Center for
Competition Protection and Prevention of Monopoly and its powers which was
established pursuant to Royal Decree No. (2/2018) to protect the competition and
prevent the harmful practices.
