一、企业合并的一般概念在美国，依据克莱顿法第七条，企业合并仅是指一个企业取得另一个企业的财产或者股份；在德国，依据反对限制竞争法第23条第2款，将企业合并的内涵扩大到能使企业直接或者间接对另一企业发生支配性影响的所有联合方式；而依据欧共体1990年9月州日生效的 I. General Concepts of Business Combination In the United States, pursuant to Article 7 of the Clayton Act, a business combination refers only to the acquisition of the property or shares of another business by one enterprise. In Germany, pursuant to article 23, paragraph 2, of the Law on the Restriction of Competition, The connotation of the merger should be extended to all the joint methods that can make the enterprise directly or indirectly affect another enterprise. According to the EC’s effective date of September 1990