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Case No COMP/M.2677 - ANGLOGOLD / NORMANDY

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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 19/12/2001

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 301M2677

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 19.12.2001

SG (2001) D/ 292986

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party:

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

1.On 19/11/2001, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 by which the South African undertaking AngloGold Limited (ìAngloGold î), controlled by Anglo American plc (ìAnglo Americanî), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the Australian undertaking Normandy Mining Limited (ìNormandyî) by way of public bid for the entire issued share capital of ìNormandyî announced on 5/11/2001.

2.AngloGold is active in the production of gold, silver, uranium, sulphuric acid. Anglo American is a global mining and natural resources (gold, platinum, diamonds, coal, base and ferrous metals, industrial minerals and forest products). Normandy is a producer of gold, zinc concentrate, copper concentrate, lead, silver, cobalt and magnesium.

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.

3.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.

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

1OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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