Case No COMP/M.2746 - VOLKSWAGEN / SVENSKA VOLKSWAGEN

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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 30/05/2002

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 302M2746

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 30/05/2002

SG (2002) D/230010

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party

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

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2746 ñ VOLKSWAGEN/SVENSKA VOLKSWAGEN Notification of VOLKSWAGEN/SVENSKA VOLKSWAGEN pursuant to Article 4 1of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 106, 03/05/2002, page 21.

1.1. On 24 April 2002, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 by which the undertaking Volkswagen AG (ìVWAGî; Germany) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Svenska Volkswagen AB (ìSVWî; Sweden) by way of purchase of shares.

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. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for undertaking VWAG: developing, manufacturing and marketing of passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and related spare parts and accessories.

-- for undertaking SVW: exclusive wholesale distributor for the Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda motor vehicles as well as Porsche motor vehicles in Sweden.

3.3. 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 4, subparagraph c of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89.

4.4. 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 (EEC) No. 4064/89.

For the Commission

Signed by Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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