CELEX: 32011M6140
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 04/04/2011 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6140 - DUPONT / DANISCO) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32011M6140

Commission Decision of 04/04/2011 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6140 - DUPONT / DANISCO) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION     |
            Brussels , 4.4.2011
             C(2011) 2479 final
             PUBLIC VERSION
             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.6140 - DUPONT/ DANISCO  Notification of 01/03/2011 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 77, 11/03/2011 p.20
            1.  On 01.03.2011, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont", USA) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the undertaking Danisco A/S ("Danisco", Denmark) by way of a public bid.
            2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             - for undertaking DuPont : research, development, production, distribution, and sales of a variety of chemical products, plastics, agro-chemicals, paints, seeds, and other materials, including those developed through biotechnology. 
             - for undertaking Danisco : research, development, production, distribution, and sales of food ingredients, including enablers, cultures, enzymes and sweeteners, as well as industrial enzymes. 
            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 [2]  .  
            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] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.