CELEX: 32022M10471
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 07/01/2022 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10471 - SUEZ / SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 7.1.2022
                                                                C(2022) 143 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Suez Groupe SAS
                                                                Tour CB21 - 16 place de l´Iris
                                                                92040 Paris La Défense
                                                                France
                                                                Schneider Electric Industries SAS
                                                                70 Mechanic Street
                                                                Foxboro, MA 02035
                                                                United States of America
Subject:        Case M.10471 — SUEZ / SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC / 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 December 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertakings Suez Groupe SAS (“Suez”) (France), and Schneider Electric Industries
        SAS (“Schneider Electric”) (France), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b)
        and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control of Joint Venture (“JV”) (France) by
        way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for Suez: the provision of water management, recycling and wastewater recovery
              for public and industrial customers, in the collection, sorting, recycling, disposal
              and treatment of non-hazardous and hazardous waste and urban development
              services,
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 505, 15.12.2021, p. 3.
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 Schneider Electric: the provision of energy management and automation
       solutions for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructures and industries,
   −   for the JV: the design, development and commercialisation of water management
       software for the water and wastewater treatment facilities of municipal operators
       and industrial clients worldwide.
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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