CELEX: 32015M7674
Language: en
Date: 2015-07-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24/07/2015 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.7674 - TALANX / NORD/LB / CAPLANTIC) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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                                        Brussels, 24.7.2015
                                        C(2015) 5322 final

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|To the notifying parties:                                              |                                                                       |

Dear Sirs,

Subject:    Case M.7674 - TALANX / NORD/LB / CAPLANTIC
         Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1] and Article 57 of the Agreement on the
         European Economic Area[2]

 1. On 25.06.2015, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger  Regulation  by
    which TAM (Germany) controlled by Talanx AG ("Talanx") and Nord/LB (Germany) acquire within the meaning of  Article  3(1)(b)  joint  control
    over caplantic by way of purchase of shares.[3]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

  – for TAM / Talanx: asset management, and non-life insurance, life insurance and reinsurance;

  – for NordLB: commercial banking and central banking for savings banks;

  – for caplantic: alternative asset investment management.

 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.[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)
                                        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]   OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 ("the EEA Agreement").

[3]   Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C235, 18.07.2015, p. 3.

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

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