Case No COMP/M.3857 - SITA / FLUGHAFEN DÜSSELDORF / FDITG

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 29/07/2005

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32005M3857

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 29.07.2005

SG-Greffe(2005) D/204117

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

PUBLIC VERSION

To the notifying parties

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

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.3857 - SITA/Flughafen Düsseldorf/FDITG Notification of 01.07.2005 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 172, 12.7.2005, p. 19.

1.On 01.07.2005, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertakings SITA Information Networking Computing BV (“SITA”, The Netherlands) and Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH (“Flughafen Düsseldorf”, Germany), controlled by the city of Düsseldorf (“Stadt Düsseldorf”, Germany) and Hochtief AG (“Hochtief”, Germany), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of Flughafen Düsseldorf Informationstechnologie GmbH (“FDITG”, Germany), currently solely controlled by Flughafen Düsseldorf, by way of purchase of shares.

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Commission européenne, 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 SITA:

provision of information and telecommunications services to global air transport and related industries

-- for Flughafen Düsseldorf:

operation of Düsseldorf airport in Germany

-- for FDITG:

provision and marketing of IT and telecommunications services for the campus of the Düsseldorf airport and business park “Airport City”

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, subparagraphs a and c, 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 Neelie KROES Member of the Commission

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