China is implementing multiple changes to its merger control procedures, following recent amendments to the country’s Anti-Monopoly Law.

China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has amended the country’s 14-year-old Anti-Monopoly Law, effective August 1, 2022 (the Amended AML). China’s antitrust authority, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), has published draft “implementation regulations” that, once finalized, will put these amendments into effect.1 These amendments and implementation regulations include a number of important changes to China’s merger control thresholds, procedures, and failure-tocomply penalties.