CELEX: 32019M9371
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26/07/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9371 - DSV A/S / Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 26.7.2019
                                                                C(2019) 5797 final
                                                                                      PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9371 - DSV/Panalpina Welttransport
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 3 July 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which DSV A/S (“DSV”,
        Denmark) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole
        control of the whole of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG (“Panalpina”, Switzerland) by
        way of public bid announced on 1 April 2019.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
          –        for DSV: provision of freight forwarding services for land, air and sea freight
                   forwarding and contract logistics services. DSV offers door-to-door freight
                   forwarding services to businesses.
          –        for Panalpina: provision of freight forwarding services to businesses and focuses
                   on land, air and sea freight forwarding and contract logistics services.
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(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
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').
3       Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 232, 10.07.2019, p. 11.
4       OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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--- 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)
                                               Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                               Director-General
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