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Case No COMP/M.4244 - RAVAGO / MUEHLSTEIN

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 31/07/2006

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32006M4244

Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 31/07/2006 SG-Greffe (2006) D/204355

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party

Dear Madams and Sirs,

Subject: COMP/M.4244 - Ravago/Muehlstein

Notification of 30.06.2006 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1139/2004

Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 160, 11/07/2006, p 5.

1.On 29/06/06, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking Ravago S.A (ìRavagoì, Luxembourg) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Muehlstein Holding Corporation (ìMuehlsteinì, USA) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for Ravago: distribution, recycling and compounding of polymers, ancillary manufacture of some plastics and construction material and distribution of construction materials mainly in Europe;

-- for Muehlstein: distribution and compounding of polymers in all major regions worldwide with a focus on North and South America;

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Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.

3.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph 5, subparagraph c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 139/2004.

4.For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 139/2004.

For the Commission,

p.p. L. EVANS Philip LOWE Director General

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