CELEX: 32018M8920
Language: en
Date: 2018-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19/06/2018 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8920 - Arjun Infrastructure Partners / Mitsubishi Corporation / South Staffordshire) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 19.6.2018
                                                                C(2018) 3964 final
                                                                     PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the Notifying Parties
Subject:        Case M.8920 - MITSUBISHI CORPORATION / ARJUN INFRASTRUCTURE
                PARTNERS / SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 14 May 2018, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Mitsubishi
        Corporation ("Mitsubishi Corporation", Japan) and Arjun Infrastructure Partners Limited
        ("AIP", UK) acquire, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger
        Regulation, joint control of the whole of South Staffordshire plc ("SSF", UK). The
        concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             Mitsubishi Corporation is a global integrated trading company which develops and
              operates businesses across a variety of industries,
             AIP is an independent infrastructure investment advisory company,
              South Staffordshire is an integrated services group active in the areas of regulated
                 and unregulated water supply and related services. South Staffordshire is currently
                 jointly controlled by Mitsubishi Corporation and KKR & Co. L.P.
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(b) 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 181, 28.5.2018, p. 10.
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---    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)
                                                   Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                   Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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