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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 24/02/2006

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32006M4105

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 24-II-2006

SG-Greffe(2006) D/200840

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

PUBLIC VERSION

To the notifying parties:

Dear Madam, dear Sir,

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.4105 - DSV/Frans Maas Notification of 23.01.2006 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 20, 27.01.2006, page 29.

1.On 23.01.2006, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking DFDS Transport Group A/S (ìDFDS Transportî, Denmark) controlled by DSV A/S (ìDSVî, Denmark) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Koninklijke Frans Maas Groep N.V. (ìFrans Maasî, Netherlands) by way of public bid.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for DFDS Transport : international distribution and freight forwarding by road, sea and air and contract logistic services;

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

-- for DSV: transport and logistics;

-- for Frans Maas: freight forwarding and logistics services.

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, subparagraph 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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