CELEX: 32013M6777
Language: en
Date: 2013-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25/01/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6777 - YAZAKI EUROPE / S-Y SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES EUROPE) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32013M6777

Commission Decision of 25/01/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6777 - YAZAKI EUROPE / S-Y SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES EUROPE) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION      |
             Brussels, 25/01/2013
             C(2013)484
             PUBLIC VERSION SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
            To the notifying party: | |
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6777 - YAZAKI EUROPE/ S-Y Systems Technologies Europe  Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1] 
            1.  On 14 December 2012, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Yazaki Europe Limited (“YEL”, UK), belonging to Yazaki Corporation (“YC”, Japan), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of S-Y Systems Technology Europe GmbH ("S-YST", Germany), by way of purchase of shares. S-YST is currently jointly-controlled by YC and Continental Automotive GmbH.  [2]  
            2.  The undertakings concerned, YEL and S-YST, are active in the development and sale of automotive electrical distribution systems (wiring harnesses).
            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 (d) 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
            [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 398, 22/12/2012, p. 36
            [3] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.