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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 28/05/2014

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32014M7223

Office for Publications of the European Union L-2985 Luxembourg

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 28.5.2014 C(2014) 3714 final

PUBLIC VERSION

SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE

To the notifying party:

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

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.

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.

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.

2Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 138, 8.5.2014, p. 44.

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.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.

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

3OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.