所谓企业集中事前申报制度,通常是指当企业准备实施集中行为时,为了确保政府的规制当局(例如,日本的公正交易委员会、美国的司法部和联邦贸易委员会(FTC)以及欧盟的委员会)能够有一个于事前当该企业集中是否将会产生限制市场竞争之效果的违法性问题作出判断的机会,而要求企业集 The so-called “pre-emptive declaration system” usually means that when the enterprises are ready to implement the central act, in order to ensure that the regulatory authorities of the government (for example, Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the EU’s commission) There is an opportunity to judge beforehand whether or not the concentration of the enterprise will produce an illegality that limits the effectiveness of market competition,