CELEX: 32013M6859
Language: en
Date: 2013-03-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20/03/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6859 - MITSUBISHI CORPORATION / ISUZU MOTORS / ISUZU MOTORS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32013M6859

Commission Decision of 20/03/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6859 - MITSUBISHI CORPORATION / ISUZU MOTORS / ISUZU MOTORS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION      |
             Brussels, 20.3.2013
             C(2013) 1779 final
             PUBLIC VERSION SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
             To the notifying parties
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6859 - MITSUBISHI CORPORATION/ ISUZU MOTORS/ ISUZU MOTORS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1] 
            1.  On 20.02.2013, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Mitsubishi Corporation ("MC", Japan) and Isuzu Motors Ltd. ("Isuzu", Japan), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of Isuzu Motors India Private Ltd., ("Isuzu India", India) by way of purchase of shares [2]  . 
            2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             - for MC: supply of energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, food and general merchandise;
              - for Isuzu: manufacture and supply of motor vehicles as well as engine components.
            3.  Isuzu India will be active in the manufacture and supply of motor vehicles and spare parts in India and possibly in other neighbouring emerging markets. Isuzu India will not be active in the EEA.
            4.  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 [3]  .  
            5.  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 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]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 057, 27.02.2013, p.5
            [3] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.