CELEX: 32020M9747
Language: en
Date: 2020-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31/03/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9747 - LAGARDERE TRAVEL RETAIL / BTA / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 31.03.2020
                                                                C(2020) 2086 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9747 – Lagardère Travel Retail/BTA/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 6 March 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Lagardère
        Travel Retail S.A.S. (‘Lagardère’, France), belonging to the Lagardère group (France)
        and BTA Havalimanlari Yiyecek Ve Icecek Hizmetleri A.S. (‘BTA’, Turkey),
        belonging to the Aéroports de Paris group (‘ADP’, France) acquire within the
        meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control 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 undertaking Lagardère: offers travel retail and food services and is
                 currently active in 39 countries worldwide, including Europe and the Middle-
                 East. Lagardère is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Lagardère SCA, the
                 ultimate parent company of the French Lagardère group that is listed on the
                 Paris Stock Exchange,
              for undertaking BTA: offers food and beverage services at airports and sea
                 lines in nine countries in Europe and the Middle-East. It belongs to Aéroport
                 de Paris SA’s group of companies that is incorporated in France and listed on
                 the Paris Stock Exchange,
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 83, 13.3.2020, p. 71.
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 the newly created joint venture: active in the operation of foodservices and
           travel retail services concessions at airports in Jordan, notably at Queen Alia
           International Airport in Amman.
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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