Case No COMP/M.2070 - TIETOENATOR / EDB BUSINESS PARTNER / JV

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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 16/10/2000

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 300M2070

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 16.10.2000 SG(2000)D/107576

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying Parties,

Dear Sirs,

Subject: CASE No. COMP/M.2070-TIETOENATOR/EDB BUSINESS PARTNER/ JV

1Notification of 13.9.2000 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89. Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 269/6, 20.09.2000.

1.On 13 September 2000 the Commission received the notification of an operation by which the undertakings, TietoEnator EB (ìTietoEnatorî) and EDB Business Partner ASA (ìEDBî), both based in Norway, acquire joint control of a newly created company, Newco, constituting a joint venture, by way of purchase of shares. The activities of TietoEnator Corporation encompass consulting services, Information Technology (IT) systems and software products. Telenor Groupís activities are telecommunications; IT and media; and the business activities of Newco are IT- related consultancy services to hospitals.

2After 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 section II. 4 a) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89.

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.

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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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)

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