CELEX: 32022M10514
Language: en
Date: 2022-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 01/03/2022 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10514 - DASSAULT SYSTEMES INTERNATIONAL / SZSW / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 1.3.2022
                                                                C(2022) 1397 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Beijing Shenzhou Aerospace Software
                                                                Technology Co., Ltd.
                                                                No. 28 Yongfeng Road, Haidian
                                                                District
                                                                Beijing
                                                                China
                                                                Dassault Systèmes International SAS
                                                                10 rue Marcel Dassault, CS 40501
                                                                78946 - Vélizy-Villacoublay
                                                                France
Subject:        Case M.10514 - DASSAULT SYSTEMES INTERNATIONAL / SZSW / JV
                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 3 February 2022, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Dassault
        Systemes International SAS (“DSI”, France) and Beijing Shenzhou Aerospace
        Software Technology Co., Ltd (“SZSW”, China) acquire within the meaning of
        Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of Joint
        Venture (“JV”, China) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for DSI: development and marketing of product life-cycle management (“PLM”)
              software, enabling 3D design, engineering, modelling, simulation, data
              management and process management,
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 72, 14.02.2022, p.10.
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---    −   for SZSW: development and marketing of software for various applications,
       including the air and space sector, only in China,
   −   for he JV: supply of PLM software products and solutions in China, including the
       development of specific applications and the supply of associated services in the
       civil domain.
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)
                                                   Olivier GUERSENT
                                                   Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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