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". – I can assure Mr Howitt that the Commission, individual Commissioners and I personally, are very concerned about all issues pertaining to possible abuses of human rights.
Having said that, there are, of course, different instruments for different purposes, and in the Community legal order, the Merger Regulation has the very limited, and yet important enough, objective of ensuring the protection of competition in the interests ultimately of consumers on the occasion of mergers. I do not believe that it would be appropriate to aim at more than one objective through a single instrument. The Merger Regulation is a powerful tool to ensure that the interests of consumers are protected when companies combine their activities. Its efficiency should therefore not be hindered by adding other objectives of a complex nature that are difficult to assess and that would at any rate not be effectively served by this specific legal instrument.
Conversely, Member States and the European Union have at their disposal other means to deal with human-rights-related issues."@en1
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