CELEX: 32011M6161
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 08/04/2011 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6161 - CLARIANT / SÜD-CHEMIE) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32011M6161

Commission Decision of 08/04/2011 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6161 - CLARIANT / SÜD-CHEMIE) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION     |
            Brussels ,08/04/2011
             C(2011) 2595 final
             PUBLIC VERSION  
                    
             MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION
             SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
                To the notifying party:  
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6161 – CLARIANT/ SÜD-CHEMIE Notification of 10/03/2011 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 88, 19/03/2011, p.35.
             1. On 10/03/2011, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertakings Clariant AG (Swizterland), and Clariant Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany) the latter belonging to the Clariant AG group, acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Süd-Chemie AG (Germany) by way of purchase of shares.
             2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              - for Clariant AG : manufacture and marketing of specialty chemicals.
              - for Süd-Chemie AG : manufacture and marketing of specialty chemicals in the areas of 
                            adsorbents and catalysts.
             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(c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 [2]  .  
             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] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.