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Case No COMP/M.7188 - REMONDIS NEDERLAND / SITA RECYCLING SERVICES / JV

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 03/07/2014

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32014M7188

Office for Publications of the European Union L-2985 Luxembourg

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 3.7.2014 C(2014) 4669 final

PUBLIC VERSION

SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE

To the notifying party:

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

1.On 04.06.2014, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Remondis Nederland B.V. (the Netherlands), owned by Remondis AG & Co ("Remondis Group", Germany) and ultimately controlled by Rethmann AG & Co. KG (Germany), and SITA Recycling Services B.V., (“SITA”, the Netherlands), ultimately controlled by Suez Environnement Company SA (France), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control over a newly created joint venture ("NewCo", the Netherlands).

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-for Remondis Group: an international water and environmental service company active, among others, in the collection, sorting and recycling of plastic waste;

-for SITA: active in the Netherlands within the fields of the collection, transportation and processing of industrial waste, special waste, household waste as well as sewer maintenance and soil sanitation;

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.

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.

2.for NewCo: will be active in the sorting of Dutch household plastic waste.

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.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

2Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 178, 12.06.2014, p. 35.

3OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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