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Case No COMP/M.3700 - EDP / LOGICACMG / EDINFOR

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 01/04/2005

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32005M3700

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 01/04/2005

SG-Greffe(2005) D/201589/90

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying parties

Dear Sir,

Subject : Case No COMP/M.3700 ñ EDP/LogicaCMG/Edinfor Notification of 23/02/2005 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004. Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 055, 04/03/2005 Page 3

Date of notification : 23.02.2005 Legal Deadline : 04.04.2005

1.On 23.02.2005, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking LogicaCMG Corporate Holdings Ltd, controlled by LogicaCMG plc (ìLogicaCMGî, UK) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking Edinfor ñ Sistemas Inform·ticos, S.A. (ìEdinforî, Portugal), currently solely controlled by the group EDP ñ Energias de Portugal, S.A. (ìEDPî, Portugal), by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for EDP: generation, distribution and supply of electricity, telecommunications, information technology, engineering, professional training and real estate;

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

-- for LogicaCMG: IT services;

-- for Edinfor: IT services.

2.After examination of the notification, the Commission finds that the notified transaction falls within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 and of paragraph 5(c)(i) 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) Neelie KROES Member of the Commission

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