The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has proposed toning down some of the provisions in the proposal for a regulation, given that we believe that, on grounds of proportionality, it is absolutely unnecessary to bring the Commission’ s powers of investigation for mergers into line with the powers envisaged for cartels, since the areas concerned are completely different. ###>Nous estimons que le Parlement doit adopter une position offrant de meilleures garanties.