Case No COMP/M.4044 - SAAB / TIETOENATOR / TIETOSAAB SYSTEMS JV

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 30/01/2006

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32006M4044

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 30/01/2006

SG-Greffe(2006) D/200391/200392/200393/200394

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.4044 - SAAB / TIETOENATOR / TIETOSAAB SYSTEMS JV Notification of 20/12/2005 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No.C 334, 30/12/2005, page 29.

1.On 20/12/2005, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertakings SAAB AB (Sweden) including its subsidiary Elesco Oy (Finland) and TietoEnator Corporation including its subsidiary TietoEnator Government Oy (ìTietoEnatorî, Finland) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of Tietosaab Systems JV (ìTSSî, Finland), a newly created company constituting a joint venture through the purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

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SAAB is a defence company, jointly controlled by BAE Systems and Investor, which is active through Elesco in sea and air defence, Command Control and Information system (C2i) and underwater warfare. TietoEnator is an information

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

technology systems company. TietoEnator Government serves the Finnish customers within the government and local authority business area.

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TSS, the joint venture company, is being established to enable the parties to participate, as a prime contractor, in procurements tendered by the Finnish Ministry of Defence for C2i systems and underwater warfare.

2.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(c), 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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