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Case No COMP/M.5132 - SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS / SAMSUNG TECHWIN (European distribution activities)

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 14/05/2008

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32008M5132

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 14-V-2008 SG-Greffe (2008) D/203214

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party

Dear Sirs,

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.5132 ñ Samsung Electronics / Samsung Techwin Notification of 04/04/2008 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 93, 15.4.2008, p.14

1.On 4 April 2008, the Commission received the notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertaking Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ("Samsung Electronics", Korea) indirectly acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of Samsung Opto-Electronics GmbH ("Samsung Opto-Electronics" Germany), Samsung Opto-Electronics France S.A.S ("Samsung Opto-Electronics France", France), Samsung Opto-Electronics UK ("Samsung Opto-Electronics UK", UK), which are all indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd. ("Samsung Techwin", Korea) by way of purchase of assets.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

ññ for Samsung Electronics: design, development, manufacture and distribution of products in the area of electronics and information technology;

1OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1.

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

ññ for Samsung Opto-Electronics, Samsung Opto-Electronics France and Samsung Opto-Electronics UK: distribution of still digital cameras.

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 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 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

2OJ C 56, 5.3.2005 p.32.

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