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Case No COMP/M.2238 - SOLECTRON / NATSTEEL ELECTRONICS

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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 19/12/2000

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 300M2238

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 19.12.2000 * SG (2000)D/109366

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying parties

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2238 - Solectron /Natsteel Electronics Notification of 21.11.2000 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No.

4064/891 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 345, 01.12.2000, page 9.

1.On 21.11.2000, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the US undertaking Solectron Corp. (SOLECTRON) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking NatSteel Electronics Ltd. Singapore (NATSTEEL ELECTRONICS) by way of a public bid announced on 31.10.2000.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

-- for undertaking SOLECTRON: contract manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers,

-- for undertaking NATSTEEL ELECTRONICS : contract manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers.

1OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrected version OJ L 257 of 21.9.1990, p. 13, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97, OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.

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3.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 and of section II 4 c (i) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain

concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/892.

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. 4064/89.

For the Commission, Signed M. Monti, (Member of the Commission)

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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