Subject: Approval of the acquisition of sole control by the company under the name “PROFARM SA’’ over the companies “PHARMA GROUP MESSINIAS S.A.’’, ‘’PHARMA GROUP ACHAIAS S.A.’’, ‘’PHARMA GROUP ARGOLIDAS S.A.’’.
Decision adopted on the joined cases concerning (a) the ex officio investigation conducted by the Directorate General for Competition (hereinafter “DGC”) into the market for the provision of banking services and, in particular, in the sub-markets for retail and corporate banking, card issuing and acquiring, as well as into the markets for interbank systems, payment services and electronic transactions and (b) the ex officio investigation conducted by the DGC, following a complaint, into the markets for payment services, card issuing and merchant acquiring activities, provision of trading network services by use of electronic payment terminals and other devices, provision of acquiring processing services and interbank systems, in order to determine whether there is an infringement of Articles 1 and 2 of Law 3959/2011 (Greek Competition Act), as in force, and 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter “TFEU”), following the settlement proposals submitted by the undertaking “HSBC CONTINENTAL EUROPE”.
