Phase I - Conditional clearance : The European Commission clears with commitments the proposed acquisition of the EEA largest salmon processor by the EEA leading salmon farmer (Marine Harvest c/ Morpol)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 30 September 2013, the European Commission approved the acquisition of Morpol, the largest salmon processor in the European Economic Area (EEA), by Marine Harvest, the largest salmon farmer in the EEA, both of Norway. Marine Harvest is a Norwegian company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, specialising in seafood products. It produces farmed salmon and halibut as well as a variety of value-added products from marine species. It has, inter alia, marine salmon farms as well as primary processing facilities (including fishing, slaughtering, head cutting, head butchering and hollowing and sometimes filleting) in a number of regions such as Norway, Chile,