Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.2199 — Quantum/Maxtor) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2001-03-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Publications Office of the European Union, database, dissemination of EU information, economic concentration, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation

2.3.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 68/11

(37) Commission Decision 94/922/EC (MSG Media Service, OJ L 364, 31.12.1994, p. 1); Commission Decision 96/177/EC (Nordic Satellite Distribution,
OJ L 53, 2.3.1996, p. 20); Commission Decision 96/342/EC (RTL/Veronica/Endemol, OJ L 134, 5.6.1996, p. 32); Commission Decision
1999/153/EC (Bertelsmann/Kirch/Premiere; OJ L 53, 27.2.1999, p. 1; Commission Decision 1999/154/EC (Deutsche Telekom BetaResearch; OJ L 53,
27.2.1999, p. 31); Commission Decision 97/610/EC (St Gobain/Wacker Chemie/NOM; OJ L 247, 10.9.1997, p. 1); Commission Decision 91/619/EEC
(Aerospatiale/Alenia/De Havilland, OJ L 334, 5.12.1991, p. 42); Commission Decision 97/26/EC Gencor/Lonrho, OJ L 11, 14.1.1997, p. 30);
Commission Decision 2000/276/EC (M.1524 (cid:151) Airtours/First Choice; OJ L 93, 13.4.2000, p. 1).

(38) Commission Decision of 15 March 2000 (COMP/M.1672 (cid:151) Volvo/Scania); Commission Decision of 28 June 2000 (COMP/M.1741 (cid:151) WorldCom/

Sprint).

(39) Article 18(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 447/98 (Implementing Regulation), OJ L 61, 2.3.1998, p. 1.
(40) By way of a market test, customers, competitors, suppliers and other companies which might be affected or have specific expertise are requested

to indicate to the Commission their reasoned opinion as to the effectiveness of the commitment.

(41) See recital 8 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1310/97 referred to in paragraph 1.
(42) M.1439 (cid:151) Telia/Telenor; and in Commission Decision 98/335/EC (M.754 (cid:151) Anglo American/Lonrho; OJ L 149, 20.5.1998, p. 21).
(43) See paragraph 35.
(44) COMP/M.1628 (cid:151) TotalFina/Elf, LPG, cited above, at paragraph 345.
(45) Commitments must be signed by a person duly authorised to do so.
(46) Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies (OJ L 225,

12.8.1998, p. 16).

(47) Council Directive 77/187/EEC of 14 February 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of
employees rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of a business (OJ L 61, 5.3.1977, p. 26) as amended by Council
Directive 98/50/EC (OJ L 201, 17.7.1998, p. 88).

(48) Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale
undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees (OJ L 254, 30.9.1994, p. 64),
as amended by Directive 97/74/EC (OJ L 10, 16.1.1998, p. 22).

(49) The Commission does not accept seller-financed divestitures because of the impact this has on the divested company’s independence.
(50) This is most likely to arise where the market structure is already highly concentrated and where the remedy would transfer the market share to

another market player.

(51) COMP/M.1628 (cid:151) TotalFina/Elf (cid:151) motorway service stations.
(52) Commission Decision of 29 September 1999 (Case M.1383 (cid:151) Exxon/Mobil) and the Commission Decisions of 2 February 2000 in the follow-up

Cases M.1820 (cid:151) BP/JV Dissolution (not published) and M.1822 (cid:151) Mobil/JV Dissolution (OJ C 112, 19.4.2000, p. 6).

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.2199 (cid:151) Quantum/Maxtor)

(2001/C 68/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 8 December 2000 the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to
declare it compatible with the common market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. The full text of the decision is only available in English and will be
made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:

(cid:151) as a paper version through the sales offices of the Office for Official Publications of the European

Communities (see list on the last page),

(cid:151) in electronic form in the (cid:145)CEN(cid:146) version of the CELEX database, under document No 300M2199. CELEX

is the computerised documentation system of European Community law.

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