CELEX: 32022M10472
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25/01/2022 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10472 - DEUTSCHE POST DHL GROUP / JF HILLEBRAND GROUP) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                 Brussels, 25.1.2022
                                                                 C(2022) 527 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                 DEUTSCHE POST DHL GROUP
                                                                 Charles-de-Gaulle Str. 20
                                                                 53113 Bonn
                                                                 Germany
Subject:        Case M.10472 – DEUTSCHE POST DHL GROUP / JF HILLEBRAND
                GROUP
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
                (EC) No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 22 December 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Deutsche Post
        AG, trading as Deutsche Post DHL Group (‘DPDHL’, Germany), acquire within the
        meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over the whole of JF
        Hillebrand Group AG and its direct and indirect subsidiaries (‘Hillebrand’, Germany),
        by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for DPDHL: active in logistics, including national and international parcel
              delivery, international express, freight forwarding and transportation, e-commerce
              and supply chain management services. It is also active in postal service in
              Germany,
             for Hillebrand: Hillebrand is active in freight forwarding, including air, ocean and
              land freight forwarding services including ancillary services and contract logistics
              services for non-hazardous liquids. Hillebrand also produces flexitanks used for
              bulk liquids transportation in containers.
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 9, 10.1.2022, 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--- 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
   paragraphs 5(c) and 6 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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