CELEX: 32014M7190
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14/07/2014 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.7190 - BEKAERT / MACCAFERRI / JV) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

|[pic]                             |EUROPEAN COMMISSION                                                                                      |

                                        Brussels, 14.7.2014
                                        C(2014) 5116 final

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                                        To the notifying parties

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

Subject:    Case M.7190 - BEKAERT/ MACCAFERRI/ JV
         Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1]

 1. On 18 June 2014, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by
    which NV Bekaert SA ('Bekaert', Belgium) and Officine Maccaferri S.p.A. ('Maccaferri', Italy), a wholly-owned subsidiary of S.E.C.I. S.p.A.,
    acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of a newly created company constituting a joint venture
    ('JV', Belgium) by way of purchase of shares.[2]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

      – for Bekaert: steel wire transformation and coatings,

      – for Maccaferri: environmental engineering,

      – for the JV: sale and distribution of various underground and tunnelling products and solutions.

 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.[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 195, 25.6.2014, p. 4.

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