CELEX: 32019M9229
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13/02/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9229 - Financière SNOP Dunois S.A. / Tower Automotive Holdings Europe B.V.) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 13.02.2019
                                                                C(2019) 1384
                                                                        PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9229 – FSD / TOWER EUROPE
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 17 January 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 and following a referral pursuant to Article 4(5) of the
        Merger Regulation by which the undertakings Financière SNOP Dunois S.A. (“FSD”,
        France), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole
        control over the whole of the undertaking Tower Automotive Holdings Europe B.V.
        (“Tower Europe”, the Netherlands) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for FSD: manufacture and sale of metal parts for the automotive industry. It also
              supplies tooling and, to a lesser degree, metal presses for the automotive industry,
             for Tower Europe: manufacture and sale of engineered structural metal components
              and assemblies for the automotive industry, including body-structure stampings, frame
              and other chassis structures and welded assemblies.
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(c) 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 030, 24.1.2019, p. 7.
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---    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)
                                                   Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                   Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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