43Thus, the prospective analysis consists of an examination of how a concentration might alter the factors determining the state of competition on a given market in order to establish whether it would give rise to a serious impediment to effective competition. Such an analysis malíes it necessary to envisage various chains of cause and effect with a view to ascertaining which of them are the most likely.
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