The transaction between the Latvian national airline airBaltic and Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Lufthansa), which will result in Lufthansa acquiring a 10% share in airBaltic, is currently in the public domain. It has been announced in the media that this transaction will be assessed by Germany’s national competition regulatory agency – the Federal Cartel Office; therefore, one might wonder whether the Competition Council of Latvia (CC) should also assess this transaction. As regards the notification of the transaction in question, the Competition Law (CL) provides that a transaction must be notified to the CC if the merger transaction results in the acquisition of sole decisive influence or joint decisive influence or a change in the nature of…