2.2.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 39/1

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in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,

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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32016M7888. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.

2.2.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 39/1

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in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,

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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32016M7845. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.

2.2.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 39/2

2.2.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 39/3

1.

On 26 January 2016, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which PostFinance AG (Switzerland), controlled by Schweizerische Post AG, and SIX Group AG (Switzerland) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and Article 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control of SIX Paynet AG (Switzerland), currently controlled by SIX Group AG alone, by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

3.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved. Pursuant to the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2), it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in the Notice.

4.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit to it their observations on the proposed operation.

Observations must reach the Commission no later than 10 days following the date on which this notification is published. They can be sent to the Commission under reference M.7886 — PostFinance/SIX Group/SIX Paynet by fax (+32 22964301), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post to the following address:

2.2.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 39/4

1.

On 27 January 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which HDI Assicurazioni SpA (Italy), belonging to the Talnax Group (Germany) acquire(s) within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of CBA Vita SpA (Italy) and its subsidiary Sella Life Limited, belonging to the Banca Sella Group (Italy) by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for HDI: offering insurance products to private and commercial customers,

—   for CBA: offering life insurance products in Italy to private, professional and corporate customers; CBA has a marginal presence in insurances for damages related to sickness and accidents,

—   Sella Life: creation of unit-linked insurance contracts in Italy.

3.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved. Pursuant to the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in this Notice.

4.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the Commission.

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (+32 22964301), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference M.7939 — HDI Assicurazioni/CBA Vita/Sella Life, to the following address: