CELEX: 32020M10062
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17/12/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10062 - SDK / FREJA TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 17.12.2020
                                                                C(2020) 9405 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.10062 – SDK / FREJA TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS
                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 23 November 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which SDK A/S
        (“SDK”, Denmark), part of the group A/S United Shipping & Trading Company
        (“USTC”) and ultimately controlled by the Danish citizens Mr. Torben Østergaard
        Nielsen, Ms. Mia Østergaard Nielsen, and Ms. Nina Østergaard Borris, acquires
        within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of Freja
        Transport & Logistics Holding A/S (“FTL”, Denmark), owned by JJH Invest ApS and
        AH Skive ApS and ultimately controlled by the Danish citizen Mr. Jørgen Jørgensen
        Hansen. The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for SDK: shipping, logistics, chartering and other services to the cruise industry in
              Northern Europe including stevedoring, port agency, customs clearing,
              commercial chartering, freight forwarding services by road and sea and to a
              limited extent by air;
             for FTL: domestic and cross-border freight forwarding by land and to a limited
              extent by air and sea.
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 415, 1.12.2020, p. 35.
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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