CELEX: 32021M10167
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 06/04/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10167 - CONTINENTAL / LIGHT CONTROL UNITS BUSINESS OF OSRAM CONTINENTAL) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                 Brussels, 06.04.2021
                                                                 C(2021) 2491 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Continental AG
                                                                Vahrenwalder Straße 9
                                                                30165 Hanover
                                                                Germany
Subject:        Case M.10167 — Continental/Light control units business of OSRAM
                Continental
                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 10 March 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertaking Continental AG (“Continental”, Germany) acquires within the meaning of
        Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the light control units
        business of OSRAM Continental GmbH (“OSRAM Continental”, Germany),
        currently controlled by OSRAM GmbH (“OSRAM”, Germany), by way of purchase
        of shares and assets.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Continental: the manufacture and supply of various components and spare
              parts, notably for the automotive industry,
             for the light control units business of OSRAM Continental: the manufacture and
              supply of light control units used to control automotive lighting systems.
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 90, 17.3.2021, p. 4.
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(b) 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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