CELEX: 32014M7471
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18/12/2014 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.7471 - SHV / NUTRECO) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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                                        Brussels, 18.12.2014
                                        C(2014)10202 final

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

Subject:    Case M.7471 – SHV/ NUTRECO
         Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1]

 1. On 24 November 2014, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation
    by which the undertaking SHV Holdings N.V. ("SHV", the Netherlands) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the  Merger  Regulation
    sole control of the whole of the undertaking Nutreco N.V. ("Nutreco", the Netherlands) by way of public bid.[2]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

  – for SHV: energy distribution, cash-and-carry wholesale, heavy lifting and transport, industrial services, oil and gas and private equity,

  – for Nutreco: production, sale and distribution of animal nutrition and fish feed, processing and sale of poultry and pig meat.

 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 point 5(b) 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 429, 29.11.2014, p. 6.

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

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                                                           SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE