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Case No COMP/M.4953 - SONY ERICSSON / MOTOROLA / UIQ

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 11/12/2007

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32007M4953

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 11-XII-2007

SG-Greffe(2007) D/207727/207728

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party:

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

1.On 14 November 2007, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertakings Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB ("Sony Ericsson", Sweden), jointly controlled by Sony Corporation and Ericsson, and Motorola Inc. ("Motorola", USA) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking UI Holdings B.V. ("UI Holdings", the Netherlands), currently controlled by Sony Ericsson, by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

-- for undertaking Sony Ericsson : development, production and marketing of mobile telephones, data devices and related accessories;

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

-- for undertaking Motorola : wireless and broadband communications technologies, including the development, production and marketing of speech-based mobile devices;

-- for undertaking UI Holdings : development of mobile phone user interfaces and application frameworks trough its subsidiary UIQ Technology.

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

For the Commission Signed Philip LOWE Director General

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