Tuesday 3rd September 2024
Judgments in Joined Cases C-611/22 P Illumina v Commission and C-625/22 P Grail v Commission
(Competition – Concentrations between undertakings)
On September 21, 2020, Grail LLC, a US company developing blood tests for the early detection of cancer, and Illumina Inc, a US company specialising in genetic analysis solutions, made public a proposal for the acquisition of sole control of Grail by Illumina. As the concentration did not have a European dimension due to the small turnover of the companies, it was not notified to the Commission. Nor was it notified in the Member States of the European Union or in the States party to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement because it did not meet the relevant national thresholds.
Having received a complaint about this merger, the Commission invited the Member States to submit any requests they might have for the Commission to assess this project, in accordance with the Merger Regulation, given that it might affect trade between the Member States and threaten to significantly affect competition on their territory.
The Commission received a request to this effect from the French competition authority, which was also joined by the Greek, Belgian, Norwegian, Icelandic and Dutch competition authorities. In its Illumina v Commission judgment (T-227/21, see also press release n. 123/22), the General Court Illumina’s action against the decisions by which the Commission granted the main application and the requests for joinder.
Illumina and Grail have each appealed against this judgment before the Court of Justice.
Background Documents C-611/22 P and C-625/22 P
Dienstag, 3. September 2024
Urteil des Gerichtshofs (Große Kammer) in den verbundenen Rechtsmittelsachen C‑611/22 P Illumina / Kommission und C‑625/22 P Grail / Kommission und Illumina
Übernahme von GRAIL durch Illumina
Die Kommission gab am 19. April 2021 den Anträgen Belgiens, Frankreichs, Griechenlands, Islands, der Niederlande und Norwegens statt, die geplante Übernahme des US-Unternehmens GRAIL durch das US-Unternehmen Illumina nach der EU-Fusionskontrollverordnung zu prüfen.
Illumina ist ein führender Anbieter von Sequenzierungssystemen der nächsten Generation für genetische und genomische Analysen. GRAIL entwickelt Tests zur Krebserkennung, die sich auf solche Sequenzierungssysteme stützen.
Die Kommission hielt eine Verweisung an sie insbesondere deshalb für angebracht, weil der Zusammenschluss den Wettbewerb in den betreffenden Mitgliedstaaten der EU bzw. des EWR erheblich zu beeinträchtigen drohe und der Umsatz von GRAIL die Bedeutung des Unternehmens für den Wettbewerb nicht widerspiegele (siehe Pressemitteilung der Kommission IP/21/4322).
Illumina hat die in Rede stehenden Beschlüsse der Kommission vor dem Gericht der EU angefochten, ohne Erfolg: Mit Urteil vom 13. Juli 2022 wies das Gericht die Klage ab (siehe Pressemitteilung Nr. 123/22).
Illumina und Grail verfolgen ihr Anliegen weiter im Wege von Rechtsmitteln vor dem Gerichtshof.
Generalanwalt Emiliou hat in seinen Schlussanträgen vom 21. März 2024 die Ansicht vertreten, dass die Mitgliedstaaten die Prüfung eines Zusammenschlusses, der keine gemeinschaftsweite Bedeutung habe, bei der Kommission nicht beantragen könnten, wenn ihr nationales Recht keine eigene Zuständigkeit für die Prüfung eines solchen Zusammenschlusses vorsehe. Er hat dem Gerichtshof daher vorgeschlagen, das Urteil des Gerichts sowie die Kommissionsbeschlüsse aufzuheben (siehe Pressemitteilung Nr. 56/24).
Weitere Informationen C-611/22
Weitere Informationen C-625/22
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