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Case No COMP/M.2217 - CELESTICA / NEC TECHNOLOGIES UK

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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 13/12/2000

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 300M2217

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 13/12/2000 SG (2000) D/109154

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

PUBLIC VERSION

To the notifying parties:

Dear Sirs,

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2217 ñ Celestica/NEC Technologies UK Notification of 10.11.2000 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 14064/89 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 331/06-22.11.2000.

1.On 10.11.2000, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the Canadian undertaking Celestica Inc. ("Celestica"), under the control of the Canadian group Onex Corporation, acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking NEC Technologies UK (a subsidiary of the Japanese NEC Corporation) by way of purchase of shares. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

--for Celestica: mainly electronics manufacturing services (EMS)

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.

Rue de la Loi 200, B-1049 Bruxelles/Wetstraat 200, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium Telephone: exchange 299.11.11 Telex: COMEU B 21877. Telegraphic address: COMEUR Brussels.

-for NEC Technologies UK : information technology systems and communication equipment, in particular mobile phones and printed circuit boards.

2.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(c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain

concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89.

To the extent that restrictions specified by the parties are directly related and necessary to the implementation of the concentration, these restrictions are covered pursuant to Article 6(1)(b), second subparagraph, of 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, (signed) Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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