CELEX: 32014M7363
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29/09/2014 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.7363 - AREVA ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES / GAMESA ENERGIA / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

|[pic]                             |EUROPEAN COMMISSION                                                                                      |

                                        Brussels, 29.9.2014
                                        C(2014) 7108 final

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|SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE                      |

|To the notifying parties:                                          |                                                                        |

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

Subject:    Case M.7363 - AREVA ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES / GAMESA ENERGIA / JV
         Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1]

 1. On 4 September 2014, the European Commission received notification of  a  proposed  concentration  pursuant  to  Article  4  of  the  Merger
    Regulation by which the undertakings Areva Energies Renouvelables SAS (France), belonging to the Areva group (France), and  Gamesa  Energía,
    S.A. Unipersonal (Spain), belonging to the Gamesa group (Spain), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b)  of  the   Merger  Regulation
    joint control of a joint venture company by way of purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture.[2]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

     – Areva group: power generation solutions through the use of nuclear power and renewable energies,

     – Gamesa group: power generation solutions through the use of renewable energies, in  particular  manufacture  of  wind  turbines  for  wind
       farms,

     – The joint venture company: manufacture of offshore wind turbines and provisions of post installation maintenance services.

 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)i of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of  certain  concentrations  under
    Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.[3]

 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.

                                        For the Commission

                                        (signed)
                                        Alexander ITALIANER
                                        Director-General

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[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]   Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 308, 11.9.2014, p. 8.

[3]   OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.