CELEX: 32018M8747
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21/12/2018 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8747 - Bolloré Group / APMT / CIT) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 21.12.2018
                                                                C(2018) 9213 final
                                                                     PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties :
Subject:        Case M.8747 - BOLLORE / APMM / CIT
                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 29 November 2018, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertakings
        Bolloré Africa Logistics (France) belonging to Bolloré Group, and APM Terminals BV
        ("APMT") controlled by A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S ("APMM", Denmark), acquire within the
        meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and Article 3(4) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole
        of Côte d’Ivoire Terminal (“CIT”, Ivory Coast) by way of a purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
          –    for Bolloré Africa Logistics: logistics services, including freight forwarding, customs
               clearance and warehousing, and port terminal and railway management and
               operations,
          –    for APMT: operation of container terminals,
          –    for CIT: development and operation of a new deep sea container terminal in the Port
               of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, intended to accommodate large deep-sea vessels and
               a trans-shipment hub.
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 439, 6.12.2018, p. 30.
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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