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Case No COMP/M.6034 - NORDIC CAPITAL / SAFEROAD / VIACON

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 14/12/2010

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32010M6034

Office for Publications of the European Union L-2985 Luxembourg

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 14.12.2010 SG-Greffe(2010) D/20091 C(2010) 9355 final

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

1.On 12.11.2010, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 and following a referral pursuant to Article 4(5) of the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking Saferoad SA ("Saferoad", Norway) controlled by Nordic Capital Fund VII ("Nordic Capital", Jersey) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking ViaCon Holding AB ("ViaCon", Sweden) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for Nordic Capital : private equity investments in large and medium-sized companies;

-- for Saferoad : manufacturer and distributor of products and solutions for traffic safety;

1OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 ("the Merger Regulation"). With effect from 1 December 2009, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU") has introduced certain changes, such as the replacement of "Community" by "Union" and "common market" by "internal market". The terminology of the TFEU will be used throughout this decision.

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

- for ViaCon : manufacturer and distributor of products used in road and railways construction works.

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

For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the European Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the internal market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation.

For the Commission,

(signed)

Alexander ITALIANER Director General

2OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.

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