Si les seuils sont rabaissés, il conviendrait d'assouplir autant que possible l'article 9, disposition qui permet à un Etat membre de demander à la Commission de lui renvoyer une affaire, de façon que les concentrations purement nationales soient contrôlées au niveau national, conformément au principe de subsidiarité.
If the thresholds are lowered, if would be appropriate to make as flexible as possible Article 9, the provision by which a member state can ask the Commission to refer a case back to it, thereby ensuring that all 'purely national' mergers are controlled at national level, in line with subsidiarity.