EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG Competition

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 11/10/2022

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32022M10847

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 11.10.2022 C(2022) 7358 final

PUBLIC VERSION

NLMK Belgium Holdings SA, Rue des Rivaux 2, 7100 La Louvière, Belgium

Dear Sir or Madam,

1.1. On 12 September 2022, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation, by which the undertaking NLMK Belgium Holdings SA (‘NBH’, Belgium), jointly controlled by Société Wallonne de Gestion et des Participations SA (Belgium) and NLMK International B.V., which in turn is ultimately controlled by Novolipetsk Steel PJSC (‘NLMK’, Russia), intends to acquire, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation, sole control of the whole of NLMK DanSteel A/S (‘NLMK DanSteel’, Denmark), ultimately controlled by NLMK, by way of purchase of shares.

2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

- NBH and its subsidiaries are active in production, sale and distribution of semi-finished and finished flat steel products, including hot-rolled steel plates (quarto plates) in Europe,

- NLMK DanSteel and its subsidiary are active in the production of hot-rolled steel plates (quarto plates) and distribution of steel products in Europe.

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

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 362, 21.9.2022, p. 40.

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.

paragraph 5(c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.

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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