CELEX: 32020M10000
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17/11/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10000 - PREZERO INTERNATIONAL / SUEZ NORDIC) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 17.11.2020
                                                                C(2020) 8127 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.10000 – PreZero International/SUEZ Nordic
                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 22 October 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which PreZero
        International GmbH (‘PreZero’, Germany), belonging to the Schwarz Group
        (Germany), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation
        sole control of SUEZ Nordic AB (‘SUEZ Nordic’, Sweden), belonging to the SUEZ
        Group (France) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             PreZero provides waste disposal and recycling services, and is active in Austria,
              Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States while the
              Schwarz Group is also active in the retail sale of consumer goods in Sweden,
              through its retail chains Lidl and Kaufland,
             SUEZ Nordic comprises the waste management operations of the SUEZ Group in
              Sweden, and is active in the collection, pre-treatment, sorting, recycling, disposal
              of waste and trading of waste and commodities.
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 366, 30.10.2020, p. 53.
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(c) 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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