CELEX: 32020M10048
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11/12/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10048 - MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION / MAZDA MOTOR MANUFACTURING DE MEXICO) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 11.12.2020
                                                                C(2020) 9203 final
                                                                                PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.10048 – MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION / MAZDA MOTOR
                MANUFACTURING DE MEXICO
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
                (EC) No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
                Economic Area2
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 19 November 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertaking Mazda Motor Corporation (“Mazda”, Japan), acquires, within the
        meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation, sole control over the whole of
        Mazda Motor Manufacturing de Mexico S.A. de C.V. (“MMVO”, Mexico) by way of
        purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for Mazda: it is active in the manufacturing and sale of passenger cars and
              commercial vehicles. Its principal products are four-wheeled vehicles, gasoline
              reciprocating engines, diesel engines, and automatic and manual transmissions for
              vehicles;
        −     for MMVO: it is primarily active in the manufacturing and sale of Mazda branded
              vehicles in the Americas.
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
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 412, 30.11.2020, p. 15.
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---    paragraph 5(d) 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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