CELEX: 32018M8993
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16/10/2018 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8993 - China Huaxin Post and Telecom Technologies Co., Ltd / Juniper Networks International B.V. / Shanghai Huaxin Juniper Networks Co., Ltd.) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 16.10.2018
                                                                C(2018) 6904 final
                                                                        PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties:
Subject:        Case M.8993 - HUAXIN / JUNIPER / JV
                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 21 September 2018, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which China Huaxin Post
        and Telecom Technologies Co., Ltd ("Huaxin", PRC) and Juniper Networks International
        B.V. ("Juniper", US) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and Article 3(4) of the
        Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of the undertaking Shanghai Huaxin
        Juniper Networks Co., Ltd. ("JV", PRC) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             Huaxin is a wholly PRC State-owned industrial investment company that focusses on
              telecommunication solutions, optical fibre and cable and radio frequency, enterprise
              network and cloud computing, and system software,
          Juniper designs, develops, and sells routing, switching and security products and
              services for high-performance networks,
          The JV will be engaged in research, development, sale, marketing, manufacturing,
              distribution and service of network switches, network routers, and network security
              products in the PRC.
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(a) 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 347, 28.09.2018, p. 19.
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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