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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 02/07/2015

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32015M7634

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 2.7.2015 C(2015) 4652 final

PUBLIC VERSION

SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE

To the notifying parties

Dear Sirs,

1.On 9 June 2015, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking Mitsui & Co., Ltd ("Mitsui", Japan) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation together with Holding Gonvarri, S.L. ("Holding Gonvarri", Spain), ultimately controlled by Acek Desarrollo Y Gestión Industrial S.L. (together "Gestamp Group", Spain), joint control of the whole of the undertaking Gonvarri Eòlica, S.L. ("Gonvarri Eòlica", Spain) and its subsidiaries by way of purchase of shares. Gonvarri Eòlica and its subsidiaries are also known under the name Gestamp Renewable Industries – GRI and are currently solely controlled by Holding Gonvarri.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

−− Mitsui is a trading house engaged in a number of worldwide commodity and other businesses, including supply of steel products as well as development and promotion of wind farms,

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 200, 17.6.2015, p. 12.

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.

−− Gestamp Group is active worldwide in the steel, automotive components and renewable energy sectors,

−− Gonvarri Eòlica is active in the manufacture and supply of metal components for wind turbines, in particular wind towers and flanges.

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.

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

4OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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