CELEX: 32012M6660
Language: en
Date: 2012-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31/08/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6660 - LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES SUISSE / ECOVAL HOLDING BV ) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32012M6660

Commission Decision of 31/08/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6660 - LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES SUISSE / ECOVAL HOLDING BV ) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION     |
             Brussels, 31.8.2012
             C(2012) 6171 final
             PUBLIC VERSION
             SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
             |         To the notifying parties | |
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6660 –- Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse/ Ecoval Holding BV 
             Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1] 
            1.  On 3.08.2012, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse S.A ("LDC", Switzerland) belonging to the group Louis Dreyfus Commodities, acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the  Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Ecoval Holding BV ("Ecoval", The Netherlands) by way of purchase of shares.  [2]  
            2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
            -  for LDC : production, processing and trading of commodities.
            -  for Ecoval : trading of dairy products and ingredients.
            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) 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 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 242, 11.8.2012, p.12.
            [3] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.