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Case No COMP/M.2364 - DEUTSCHE BANK / BANQUE WORMS

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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 19/03/2001

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 301M2364

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 19.03.2001 SG(2001) D/286910

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

PUBLIC VERSION

To the notifying parties

Dear Sirs,

1.On 16/02/2001, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 by which Deutsche Bank acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of parts of Banque Worms (France) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

-- Deutsche Bank : banking

-- Banque Worms : banking

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 paragraph

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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4, subparagraph c, of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89.

To the extent that restrictions specified by the parties are directly related and necessary to the implementation of the concentration, these restrictions are covered pursuant to Article 6(1)(b), second subparagraph, of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89.

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, Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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