Document ID: docfile:36ab14ea-816b-4478-b25b-9e12744eb2c3
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m7823_118_3.pdf
Title: ACCIONA / NORDEX
Date: 2016-01-12T00:00:00.000+01:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.7823", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "ACCIONA / NORDEX", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2016-01-11T23:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["ACCIONA / NORDEX"]}

# **EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG Competition**

# Case M.7823 - ACCIONA / NORDEX

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#### **REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE**

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 12/01/2016

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32016M7823

#### **EUROPEAN COMMISSION**

#### Brussels, 12.1.2016 C(2016) 193 final

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

#### **SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE**

To the notifying party:

Dear Sirs,

**Subject: Case M.7823 - ACCIONA / NORDEX Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area**

    On 10 December 2015, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which ACCIONA S.A. ("Acciona", Spain) will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the undertaking NORDEX S.E. (“NORDEX”, Germany) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

    - ACCIONA is a diversified multinational conglomerate, with interests in the areas of infrastructure, construction, industry, water and energy services.

    - NORDEX is a multinational which is mainly engaged in the manufacture and marketing of wind turbines.

[^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 421, 17.12.2015, p. 24.

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.

    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.

    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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