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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 08/10/2007

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32007M4901

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 8-X-2007

SG-Greffe(2007) D/205980

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party

Dear Madam, Dear Sir,

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.4901 ñ Gilde/ Swets Notification of 06.09.2007 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C214, 13.09.2007, p.10

1.On 6 September 2007, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking Gilde Buy Out Management Holding B.V. ("Gilde", the Netherlands) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Koninklijke Swets & Zeitlinger Holding N.V. ("Swets" the Netherlands) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for undertaking Gilde : private equity investor;

-- for undertaking Swets : provider of subscription services to publishers and subscribers.

3.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operations falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of

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

paragraph 5, subparagraph b, 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] Philip LOWE Director General

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