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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 07/02/2002

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 302M2686

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 07.02.2002 SG (2002) D/228401

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying parties

Dear Sirs,

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2686 - DMData/StrÂlfors/JV Notification of 04.01.2002 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/891 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 10, 12.01.2002, page 4

1.On 4 January 2002, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 by which the undertakings DMdata A/S (ìDMdataî), Denmark, jointly controlled by Maersk Data A/S and Danske Bank Aktieselskab, and StrÂlfors AB (ìStrÂlforsî), Sweden, acquire, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of a newly created full function joint venture, StrÂlfors Information Logistics A/S (ìStrÂlfors Information Logisticsî), Denmark, by way of transfer of assets to and purchase of shares in the joint venture.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- DMdata: provision of IT services;

-- StrÂlfors: IT-focused business-to-business company active in the development, production and supply of complete solutions within the field of information transfer;

-- StrÂlfors Information Logistics: supply of fulfilment services.

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.

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

4.subparagraph a of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under 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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