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  EUROPEAN COMMISSION  
Brussels,  09.06.2021  
C(2021 ) 4258 final  
PUBLIC VERSION  
Syndicat Mixte pour la Gestion des 
Ports du Sud Alsace  
8 rue du 17 Novembre   
68100  Mulhouse  
France  
 
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations  
56, rue de Lille   
75007 Paris  
France  
 
Swissterminal AG  
Flachsackerstrasse 7   
4402 Frenkendorf  
Switzerland  
Subject : Case M. 10270  – SMO  PSA / CDC / SWISSTERMINAL / EURO RHEIN 
PORTS JV  
Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation 
(EC) No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Ag reement on the European 
Economic Area2  
Dear Sir or Madam,  
1. On 11 May 2021 , the European Commission received notification of a proposed 
concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger  Regulation by which the 
undertakings Syndicat Mixte pour la Gestion des  Ports du Sud Alsace (“SMO PSA”, 
France ), Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (“CDC”, France), and Swissterminal AG 
(“Swissterminal”, Switzerland ), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the 
Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of the Ports of Huningue -Village -
Neuf, of Ottmarsheim and of Ile Napoléon (“Ports de Mulhouse -Rhin”, France) , 
                                                 
1 OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 ( the ‘Merger Regulation ’). With effect from 1 December 2009,  the Treaty on 
the Functioning of the European Union ( ‘TFEU ’) has introduced certain changes, such as the 
replacement of ‘Community ’ by ‘Union ’ and ‘common market ’ by ‘internal market ’. The terminology 
of the TFEU will be used throughout this decision.  
2  OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p.  3 (the ‘EEA Agreement ’). 

2 through a newly created joint venture known as Euro Rhein Ports, France . The 
concentration is accomplished  by way of a concession agreement .3 
2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:  
 for SMO PSA : public establishment grouping  French local authorities and public 
entities  with authority over Ports de Mulhouse -Rhin , 
 for CDC : French special status public establishment  active in public service and 
open -market business activities in support of the general interest and France’s 
economic developmen t, 
 for Swissterminal: provide r of container handling services and freight services 
from terminals located in  the Basel and Züri ch area, Switzerland , 
 Euro Rhein Ports : operation of  the Ports de Mulhouse -Rhin by means of a thirty -
year delegation from SMO PSA . 
3. After examination of the notification, the European Commission has concluded that 
the notified operation falls within the sco pe of the Merger  Regulation  and of 
paragraph 5 (a) and (c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for 
treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 .4 
4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the European 
Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it 
compatible with the internal market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is 
adopted in applicat ion of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger  Regulation  and Article 57 of 
the EEA Agreement . 
For the Commission  
 
 
(Signed)  
Olivier GUERSENT  
Director -General  
 
                                                 
3  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 193, 20.5.2021 , p. 8. 
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5 .