CELEX: 32021M10280
Language: en
Date: 2021-07-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 02/07/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10280 - ABP / SLANEY / LINDEN) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 2.7.2021
                                                                C(2021) 5106 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                ABP
                                                                John Street
                                                                Ardee
                                                                Ireland
Subject:        Case M.10280 – ABP / SLANEY / LINDEN
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
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                (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 10 June 2021, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which ABP Food
        Group (‘ABP’, Ireland) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger
        Regulation sole control of the whole of (i) Slabridge Holdings Limited (‘Slaney’, UK)
        and (ii) Linden Foods Limited (‘Linden’, UK), both currently jointly controlled by
        ABP and Fane Valley Co-operative Society Limited. The concentration is
        accomplished by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for ABP: slaughtering of cattle and ovine animals (lamb and sheep), processing of
              their meat and collection and processing of associated animal by-products,
        −     for Slaney and Linden: slaughtering of cattle and ovine animals, the processing of
              their meat and the collection and processing of animal by-products in Ireland and
              Belgium Slaney and in the UK for Linden.
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 (the ‘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’).
3       Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 236, 18.6.2021, p. 14.
Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE
Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË
Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.
 ---pagebreak--- 3. After examination of the notification, the European Commission has concluded that
   the notified operation falls within the scope of the Merger Regulation and of
   paragraph 5 (d) 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 application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation and Article 57 of
   the EEA Agreement.
                                                  For the Commission
                                                  (Signed)
                                                  Olivier GUERSENT
                                                  Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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