CELEX: 32010M5919
Language: en
Date: 2010-10-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21/10/2010 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.5919 - APOLLO / ALCAN ) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32010M5919

Commission Decision of 21/10/2010 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.5919 - APOLLO / ALCAN ) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

         (.PICT.) |EUROPEAN COMMISSION     |
            Brussels , 21.10.2010
             SG-Greffe(2010)  D/16594
             PUBLIC VERSION C(2010) 7435 
             MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION
             SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
             To the notifying party
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.5919 - APOLLO / ALCAN  Notification of 16.09.2010 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 257, 24.09.2010, p.2
            1.  On 16.09.2010, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which by which the undertaking Apollo Group (‘Apollo’, USA) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the aluminium business of Alcan Engineered Products (‘Alcan’, UK) by way of purchase of shares.
             The business activities of the undertakings concerned are: 
             - for Apollo: portfolio investments, 
             - for Alcan: production and sale of rolled and extruded aluminium and related products.
            2.  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 [2]  .  
            3.  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.
             For the European Commission,
             (signed)
             Alexander ITALIANER Director General
            [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 C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.