CELEX: 32012M6760
Language: en
Date: 2012-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13/12/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6760 - CLARIANT / WILMAR / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32012M6760

Commission Decision of 13/12/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6760 - CLARIANT / WILMAR / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION      |
             Brussels, 13/12/2012
             PUBLIC VERSION C(2012) 9704 
             SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
            To the notifying parties: |
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6760 - CLARIANT/ WILMAR/ JV Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1] 
             1. On 16/11/2012, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Clariant Participations Ltd (Switzerland), belonging to Clariant AG ("Clariant", Switzerland) and Wilmar International Limited ("Wilmar", Singapore), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of a newly created joint venture (“JV”, Singapore), by way of a purchase of shares. 
             2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             - for Clariant: active, inter alia, in the production and distribution of specialty chemicals;
             - for Wilmar: active, inter alia, in the production of specialty fats, oleo chemicals and biodiesel;
              - for JV: will be active in the production of certain surfactants. [2]  .
             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 [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 365 of 24/12/2012, p.6.
            [3] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.