CELEX: 32014M7223
Language: en
Date: 2014-05-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28/05/2014 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.7223 - DANISH CROWN / SOKOLOW) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

|[pic]                             |EUROPEAN COMMISSION                                                                                      |

                                        Brussels, 28.5.2014
                                        C(2014) 3714 final

|PUBLIC VERSION                                   |
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|SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE                      |

                                        |To the notifying party:                                            |                                                                   |

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

Subject:    Case M.7223 - DANISH CROWN / SOKOLOW
         Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1]

 1. On 30 April 2014, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the  Merger  Regulation
    by which the undertaking Danish Crown A/S ("Danish Crown", Denmark) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger  Regulation
    sole control of the whole of the undertaking Sokolów SA ("Sokolów", Poland) by way of purchase  of  shares.  Sokolów  is  currently  jointly
    controlled by Danish Crown and the Finnish food company HKScan OYJ.[2]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

      – for Danish Crown: vertically integrated food company which supplies live animals, including pigs and cattle, to  slaughterhouses.  Danish
        Crown is based in Denmark but has production facilities in several countries and activities worldwide,

      – for Sokolów: vertically integrated food company which is active in the slaughtering of live animals, including pigs and  cattle,  and  in
        the processing of meat, including pig, beef and poultry. Sokolów has production facilities in Poland.

 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

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[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 138, 8.5.2014, p. 44.

[3]   OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.