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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 19/12/2022

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32022M10944

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 19.12.2022 C(2022) 9916 final

PUBLIC VERSION

Mitsubishi Corporation 3-1, Marunouchi 2-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8086, Japan

Dear Sir or Madam,

1.1. On 15 November 2022, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation, by which Mitsubishi Corporation (“MC”, Japan) will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over the whole of HERE International B.V. (“HERE”, Netherlands) by way of a contract.

2.2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are the following:

- for MC is a global integrated trading company which develops and operates business across a variety of industries. MC is divided into ten business groups: Natural Gas; Industrial Materials; Petroleum & Chemicals Solutions; Mineral Resources; Industrial Infrastructure; Automotive & Mobility; Food Industry; Consumer Industry; Power Solutions; and Urban Development Group,

- for HERE is a mapping and location intelligence business providing digital mapping data as well as navigation and location solutions to various customers across the world.

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 452, 29.11.2022, p.42.

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.

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(b) 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

4 OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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