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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 26/06/2009

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32009M5539

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 26.06.2009 SG-Greffe(2009) D/3845 C(2009) 5285

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party:

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

Subject: Case No COMP/M.5539 - SAFRAN/ GEHP Notification of 26.05.2009 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 124, 04.06.2009, p.31.

1.(1) On 26 May 2009, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking SAFRAN USA, controlled by SAFRAN SA ("SAFRAN", France), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking General Electric Homeland Protection ("GEHP", US), currently controlled by General Electric Company ("GE", US), by way of purchase of shares.

(2) The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for SAFRAN: aerospace propulsion, aircraft equipment and defense security;

-- for GE: various manufacturing, technology and service businesses;

1 OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.

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

- for GEHP: development, manufacture, installation and servicing of products used to detect explosives, weapons, illegal drugs, radioactive material, biological and chemical substances, as well as related hazards.

2.(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(b) 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) Philip LOWE Director General

2 OJ C 56, 05.3.2005, p. 32.

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