16.11.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 421/1

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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 32016M8250. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.

16.11.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 421/1

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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 32016M7963. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.

16.11.2016   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 421/2

(1)

By its Decision of 24 February 2016 (2), the Council appointed the members and alternate members of the Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work for the period from 29 February 2016 until 28 February 2019.

(2)

The governments of France and Italy have submitted further nominations for several posts to be filled,

16.11.2016   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 421/4

(1)

By its Decision of 20 September 2016 (2), the Council appointed the members and alternate members of the Advisory Committee on Freedom of Movement for Workers for the period from 25 September 2016 to 24 September 2018.

(2)

The government of Greece has submitted further nominations for several posts to be filled,

16.11.2016   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 421/6

16.11.2016   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 421/7

1.

On 8 November 2016, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Nidec Corporation (‘Nidec’) (Japan) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of parts of Emerson Electric Co.’s (‘Emerson’) motors, drives and electric power generation businesses (United States of America) by way of purchase of shares and assets.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for Nidec: manufacture and sale of motors, machinery, electronic and optical components and other products;

—   for Emerson’s motors, drives and electric power generation businesses: manufacture and sale of motors, drives, and electric power generation solutions conducted under the brand names Leroy-Somer Electric Power Generation, Leroy-Somer Motors & Drives, Control Techniques and Kato Engineering.

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 the 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.8202 — Nidec/Emerson Electric (Leroy-Somer and Control Techniques divisions), to the following address:

16.11.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 421/8

1.

On 8 November 2016, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which NEC Corporation, ultimate parent company of the NEC Group (‘NEC’, Japan) and the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (‘SMBC’, Japan) belonging to the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control of brees Corporation (‘brees’, Japan), a full-function joint venture, by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for NEC: the provision of equipment and IT solutions such as mobile terminals, computer equipment, software products, networking and sensing technologies to the public and private sectors, globally;

—   for SMBC: the provision of commercial financial services such as trade finance, syndicated loans, project finanance, currency clearing, cash management services and custody and securities services, globally;

—   for brees: the provision of services related to payments in convenience stores using mobile barcodes, exclusively active in Japan.

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 the 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.8256 — NEC Corporation/Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation/brees Corporation, to the following address: