CELEX: 32021M10053
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22/01/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10053 - ZOLLNER ELEKTRONIK / SYSKRON HOLDING / SAMHAMMER / TIKI) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 22.01.2021
                                                                C(2021) 453 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.10053 - ZOLLNER ELEKTRONIK / SYSKRON HOLDING /
                SAMHAMMER / TIKI
                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 December 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Zollner
        Elektronik AG (“Zollner”, Germany), Syskron Holding GmbH (”Syskron”, Germany),
        belonging to Krones AG, and Samhammer AG (“Samhammer”, Germany) acquire
        within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control
        over the whole of Technologisches Institut für angewandte künstliche Intelligenz
        GmbH (“TIKI”, Germany), currently controlled by Syskron and Samhammer by way
        of purchase of shares.4
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Zollner: provider of a complete service from development and production to
              after-sales service and the trade of electronic components for electronic
              manufacturing services,
             for Syskron: subsidiary of Krones AG, a manufacturer of systems and machines
              for the production, filling and packaging of beverages and liquid foods. In
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       For the purposes of this Decision, although the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union as
        of 1 February 2020, according to Article 92 of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United
        Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic
        Energy Community (OJ L 29, 31.1.2020, p. 7), the Commission continues to be competent to apply
        Union law as regards the United Kingdom for administrative procedures which were initiated before the
        end of the transition period.
3       OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 (the ‘EEA Agreement’).
4       Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 5, 07.01.2021, p. 18.
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---         addition, digitization and intralogistics solutions as well as aftersales services
        complete the product range of Krones group,
       for Samhammer: service provider with the business areas helpdesk services as
        well as branch and terminal services,
       for TIKI: company active in the development of software in connection with
        procedural research and development services in the area of artificial intelligence.
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 139/2004.5
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
5  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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