CELEX: 32017M8566
Language: en
Date: 2017-08-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16/08/2017 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8566 - MOOG SINGAPORE / SIAEC / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 16.8.2017
                                                                C(2017) 5776 final
                                                                        PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.8566 – MOOG SINGAPORE / SIAEC / JV
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 24 July 2017, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Singapore Airlines
        Engineering Company Limited ('SIAEC', Singapore), a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines
        Limited ('SIA', Singapore), and Moog Singapore Pte Ltd ('MSLP', Singapore), ultimately
        controlled by Moog Inc. ('Moog', U.S.) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(4) of the
        Merger Regulation joint control of a newly created joint venture (the 'JV') by way of
        purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for SIA: passenger and cargo transport, engineering services related to air
              transportation and airport terminal services,
        −     for SIAEC: provision of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for aerospace
              sector,
        −     for Moog: design, manufacture and sale of precision motion control products and
              systems for aerospace, defence, industrial, energy, marine and medical sectors,
        −     for MSPL: provision of maintenance, repair and overhaul services,
        −     for JV: provision of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for Moog's products.
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 250, 1.8.2017, p. 23.
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)
                                                    Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                    Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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