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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 04/03/2002

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 302M2673

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 04/03/2002

SG (2002) D/228758 & 228767

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying parties

Dear Sir(s),

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2673 - SWEROCK/JEHANDER/AROS Notification of 01.02.2002 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/891 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C N∞ 39 of 13.02.2002

1.On 01.02.2002, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which by which the undertaking Swerock AB, Sweden, belonging to the Group Peab AB, Sweden, acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertakings Aros Grusfˆr‰dling AB and Aros Grusfˆr‰dling KB (Aros), Sweden, by way of purchase of shares in an existing company constituting a joint venture. Aros is currently owned and controlled by the undertakings Jehander, Sweden, and AB F‰rdig, Sweden. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

-- for Swerock AB: production of aggregates and ready-mixed concrete;

-- for Jehander AB : production and distribution of aggregates;

-- for Aros: production of aggregates.

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.

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

2.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 4, subparagraph (a) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89.

3.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)

Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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