CELEX: 32019M9314
Language: fr
Date: 2019-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Décision de la Commission du 11/07/2019 déclarant la compatibilité avec le marché commun d'une concentration (Affaire N COMP/M.9314 - AddUp / Sogeclair / PrintSky) sur base du Règlement (CE) N 139/2004 du Conseil. (Le texte en langue française est le seul faisant foi.)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 11.7.2019
                                                                C(2019) 5394 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9314 - SOGECLAIR / ADDUP / PRINTSKY
                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 11 June 2019, 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 undertakings Sogeclair S.A. (‘Sogeclair’, France),
        belonging to the Sogeclair Group, and AddUp S.A.S. (‘AddUp’, France), belonging to
        the Michelin and Fives Groups, acquire within the meaning of Articles 3(1)(b) and
        3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control of a newly created company constituting a
        JV (‘PrintSky’) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              for Sogeclair: aeronautics and space engineering, engineering for the
                 specification design and production of special civilian and military vehicles,
                 and provision and development of solutions in the field of research, study and
                 training simulators, as well as workshops and simulation software. Sogeclair is
                 active worldwide, mainly in France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom,
                 Canada and the United States;
              for AddUp: manufacture of industrial 3D metal printing solutions ranging from
                 the design and manufacture of machines, manufacturing lines and services
                 associated with, to the redesign and manufacture of metal parts, in prototyping
                 or series and associated services. It operates worldwide (mainly in France,
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 209, 20.06.2019, p. 40.
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---            Europe and America, but also in Asia and Oceania) in the industrial,
           automotive, medical, aeronautical and space, and luxury sectors;
        for PrintSky: intended to develop and market 3D metal printing solutions in
           the aeronautics, aerospace and defence sectors, consisting exclusively of proof
           of concept solutions, in Europe or even globally.
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) and 5(c) 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)
                                                   Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                   Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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