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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 07/01/2022

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32022M10471

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 7.1.2022 C(2022) 143 final

PUBLIC VERSION

Suez Groupe SAS Tour CB21 - 16 place de l´Iris 92040 Paris La Défense France

Schneider Electric Industries SAS 70 Mechanic Street Foxboro, MA 02035 United States of America

Dear Sir or Madam,

1.1. On 6 December 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertakings Suez Groupe SAS (“Suez”) (France), and Schneider Electric Industries SAS (“Schneider Electric”) (France), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control of Joint Venture (“JV”) (France) by way of purchase of shares.

2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-− for Suez: the provision of water management, recycling and wastewater recovery for public and industrial customers, in the collection, sorting, recycling, disposal and treatment of non-hazardous and hazardous waste and urban development services,

1OJ 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.

2OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 (the ‘EEA Agreement’).

3Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 505, 15.12.2021, p. 3.

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.

-− for Schneider Electric: the provision of energy management and automation solutions for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructures and industries,

-− for the JV: the design, development and commercialisation of water management software for the water and wastewater treatment facilities of municipal operators and industrial clients worldwide.

3.3. 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 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) Olivier GUERSENT Director-General

4OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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