CELEX: 32021M10375
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11/10/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10375 - ARCELORMITTAL / CONDESA TUBOS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                 Brussels, 11.10.2021
                                                                 C(2021) 7420 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                 ArcelorMittal Aceralia Basque
                                                                 Holding, S.L.
                                                                 Chavarri, 6, Sestao
                                                                 48910 Vizcaya
                                                                 Spain
Subject:        Case M.10375 – ARCELORMITTAL / CONDESA TUBOS
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
                (EC) No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 13 September 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 and following a referral pursuant to Article 4(5) of
        the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking ArcelorMittal Aceralia Basque
        Holding, S.L. (‘ArcelorMittal’, Spain), a subsidiary of ArcelorMittal, S.A.
        (‘ArcelorMittal Group’, Luxembourg) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b)
        of the Merger Regulation control of the undertaking Condesa Tubos, S.L. (‘Condesa
        Tubos’, Spain) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              for ArcelorMittal and the ArcelorMittal Group: mining, manufacturing and
                 distribution of various steel products to the automotive, construction, energy,
                 packaging, appliances, and mining and by-products industries,
              for Condesa Tubos: manufacture of different types of small welded carbon
                 steel tubes in three sites in Spain and one site in Germany.
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
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 392, 28.9.2021, p. 3.
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---    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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