CELEX: 32020M9913
Language: en
Date: 2020-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22/09/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9913 - HELLA / MINTH / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                              Brussels, 22.09.2020
                                                              C(2020) 6604 final
                                                                               PUBLIC VERSION
                                                              To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9913 – HELLA / MINTH / JV
                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 28 August 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertakings Hella Holding International GmbH (“Hella”, Germany), ultimately
        controlled by Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA and Minth Investment Co. (“Minth”, China),
        ultimately controlled by Minth Group Limited acquire within the meaning of
        Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of the
        undertaking Hella Minth Jiaxing Automotive Parts Co. Ltd (“JV”, China) by way of
        purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        — for Hella: active in the area of automotive parts, in particular lighting and
        electronic products and trade thereof,
        — for Minth: primarily engaged in the design, manufacturing and sale of trims,
        decorative parts, body structural parts and other related auto parts,
        — for JV: shall be active in the area of automotive parts, more specifically in the area
        of radomes, covers for ‘front looking radars’, or radar sensors in the front of a vehicle.
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 298, 8.9.2020, p. 4. and No C 301,
        11.9.2020.
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(a) 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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