No L 189/54 Official Journal of the European Communities 11. 7. 81 COMMISSION DECISION of 18 June 1981 authorizing the joint creation of the undertaking Roheisengesellschaft Saar mbH (‘Rogesa’) by AG der Dillinger Hiittenwerke and Stahlwerke Réchling- Burbach GmbH (Only the German text is authentic) (81/492/ECSC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 66 thereof, Having regard to High Authority Decision No 24/54 of 6 May 1954 laying down, in implementation of Article 66 (1) of the Treaty, a Regulation on what constitutes control of an undertaking (1), Having regard to the applications by Stahlwerke Réchling-Burbach GmbH, dated 14 May 1980 and 24 February 1981, and the application by AG der Dillinger Huttenwerke dated 2 April 1981, Having regard to Commission Decision 78/538/ECSC of 6 June 1978, authorizing Arbed to acquire the whole of the capital of Neunkircher Eisenwerk AG, 25-09 % of the capital of SA Métallurgique et Miniere de Rodange-Athus, and to take over the management of the latter company (), Having obtained the comments of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, Whereas : L 1.  Aktien-Gesellschaft der Dillinger Hiittenwerke, Dillingen, Saar (‘Dillingen’), is an undertaking engaged in steel production within the meaning of Article 80 of the Treaty, with a capital of DM 157 500 000. 2. Société Financiére Sidérurgique, Paris (‘SFS), is a financial holding company which owns a majority of the shares in and is in a position to control, within the meaning of Article 66, Sacilor-Aciéries et Lami- noirs de Lorraine, Hayange (Sacilor’), a steel- producing undertaking which is also in a position to control certain other steel-producing undertakings in the SFS/Sacilor group. 3. The financial structure of Dillingen is currently being reorganized, as a result of which Dillingen, with (M) Official Journal of the ECSC, 11. 5. 1954, p. 345. () OJ No L 164, 21. 6. 1978, p. 14. its capital increased to DM 178 500 000, will be controlled by the SFS/Sacilor group. 4. Stahlwerke Réchling-Burbach GmbH (‘Réchling- Burbach’) is a steel-producing undertaking with a capital of DM 330 000 000, which is controlled, within the meaning of Article 66, together with certain other steel-producing undertakings, by Arbed SA, Luxembourg, in the Arbed group. 5. Dillingen and Réchling-Burbach intend to set up jointly the Roheisengesellschaft Saar mbH, Dillingen (‘Rogesa’), with the object of producing pig iron and supplying it to the partners (‘Gesellschafter’) on a non-profit basis. 6. The founding partners will each subscribe half the capital of Rogesa and will be represented equally on its supervisory board (‘Beirat’), to which inter alia §§ 5 to 8 of the Iron and Steel Co-determination Act (‘Gesetz iiber die Mitbestimmung der Arbeitnehmer in den Aufsichtsriten und Vorstinden der Unternehmer des Bergbaues und der Eisen und Stahl erzeugenden Industrie’) will be applied by the parties. The supervi- sory board will appoint the directorate (‘Ge- schaftsfithrung’) comprising up to four members. 7. In these circumstances Dillingen and Réchling- Burbach will be in a position to exercise joint control over Rogesa. The proposed transaction will bring about a concentration within the meaning of Article 66 (1) between Rogesa, Dillingen and the rest of the SFS/Sacilor group on the one hand, and between Rogesa, Rochling-Burbach and the rest of the Arbed group on the other, without leading, however, to a concentration between SFS/Sacilor and Arbed. IL 8. The Rogesa project is an important part of the restructuring plans for the steel industry in the Saar- land. The pig iron capacity in the iron and steel works of the Saar totalled about 7-9 million tonnes in 1980 and was distributed among 17 blast furnaces in four different locations — the Dillingen works and the