Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act

Aesculap AG; SCHÖLLY FIBEROPTIC GmbH - BWB/Z-5361 | Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde

Aesculap AG; SCHÖLLY FIBEROPTIC GmbH

BWB/Z-5361

12.04.2021

On 12.04.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:

Planned purchase process

Increase of the shareholding in SCHÖLLY FIBEROPTIC GmbH to 70% and thus acquisition of joint control over SCHÖLLY FIBEROPTIC GmbH by Aesculap AG, both Germany.

Economic Sector: Manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and elec­trotherapeutic equipment.

Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren

Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 10.05.2021.

Entrepreneurs whose legal or economic interests are affected by the merger can bring in a written statement at the Federal Competition Authority or the Federal Cartel Prosecutor within 14 days from publication date.

Note: The intervening party has no right to a certain treatment of the statement and will not gain a party position.

Non-prohibition of the merger

The Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor have not applied for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court. The standstill obligation (§ 17 (1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 11.05.2021 .

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