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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE
Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 26/07/2001
Also available in the CELEX database Document No 301M2480
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Brussels, 25.07.2001 SG (2001) D/290354
PUBLIC VERSION
MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION
SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2480-Thomson/Carlton/JV Notification of 25.06.2001 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 190/8, 06.07.2001.
1.On 25.06.2001, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which Carlton Communications PLC ("Carlton", UK) and Thomson Multimedia S.A. ("Thomson", France) create a joint venture Technicolor Cinema Advertising LLC ("TCA") by way of purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture.
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :
-- for Carlton : broadcasting, pay TV and media services
-- for Thomson : media services, consumer products and components
-- for TCA : intermediary between advertising agencies and cinemas
3After 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
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.
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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
Mario MONTI Member of the Commission
2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.
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