CELEX: 32015M7732
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21/09/2015 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.7732 - JBS / MOY PARK) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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                                        Brussels, 21.9.2015
                                        C(2015) 6564 final

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|                                                                       |To the notifying party:                                                |

Dear Sirs,

Subject:    Case M.7732 - JBS / MOY PARK
         Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1]

 1. On 26 August 2015, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger  Regulation
    by which the undertaking JBS S.A. (‘JBS’, Brazil) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation  sole  control  of
    the whole of the undertaking Moy Park Holdings (Europe) Limited (‘Moy Park’, UK) by way of purchase of shares.[2]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

      -     for JBS: global supplier of fresh and processed meat, particularly beef but also pork and poultry;

      -     for Moy Park: supply of fresh and processed poultry primarily in the UK and Ireland.

 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) and paragraph 6 of the Commission  Notice  on  a  simplified  procedure  for  treatment  of  certain
    concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.[3]

 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. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation.

                                        For the Commission
                                        (signed)
                                        Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                        Director-General
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[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]   Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 290, 4.9.2015, p. 13.

[3]   OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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