do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.2662 — Danish Crown/Steff-Houlberg) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2001-12-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Commission, economic concentration, exchange of information, meat processing industry, merger control

29.12.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 374/69

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.2662 (cid:151) Danish Crown/Steff-Houlberg)

(2001/C 374/11)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 21 December 2001 the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant
to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1310/97 (2), by which the cooperative Danish Crown AmbA, Denmark, enters into a full merger within
the meaning of Article 3(1)(a) of the Regulation with the cooperative Steff-Houlberg AmbA, Denmark.

The business activities of both undertakings concerned are mainly the killing and cutting of pigs and

2.
beef, processing and trading of fresh meat and processed meat products.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified concentration could fall within

3.
the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit

4.
proposed operation.

their possible observations on the

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication.
Observations can be sent by fax (No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post, under reference
COMP/M.2662 (cid:151) Danish Crown/Steff-Houlberg, to:

European Commission,
Directorate-General for Competition,
Directorate B (cid:151) Merger Task Force,
Rue Joseph II/Jozef II-straat 70,
B-1000 Brussels.

(1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2001-12-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, euro, exchange rate, national currency

29.12.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 374/55

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

28 December 2001

(2001/C 374/05)

1 euro

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=

=

=

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7,4365

Danish krone

9,3012

Swedish krona

0,6085

Pound sterling

0,8813

United States dollar

1,4077

Canadian dollar

115,33

Japanese yen

1,4829

Swiss franc

7,9515

Norwegian krone

91,48

Icelandic kr(cid:243)na (2)

1,728

Australian dollar

2,1215

New Zealand dollar

10,4302

South African rand (2)

(1) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
(2) Source: Commission.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.2609 — Hewlett Packard/Compaq) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2001-12-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Commission, computer equipment, economic concentration, exchange of information, information technology industry, merger control

C 374/68

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

29.12.2001

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.2609 (cid:151) Hewlett Packard/Compaq)

(2001/C 374/10)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 20 December 2001 the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant
to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1310/97 (2), by which the US undertaking Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) acquires, within the meaning
of Article 3(1)(b) of the Regulation, control of the whole of the US undertaking Compaq Computer
Corporation (Compaq) by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

(cid:151) HP: global provider of computing hardware (including personal computers, handheld information
devices, workstations, servers and storage solutions), imaging solutions (including printers), software
and services,

(cid:151) Compaq: global provider of enterprise technology and solutions. Compaq designs, develops, manu-
factures and markets hardware (including personal computers, handheld information devices, work-
stations, servers and storage solutions), software and services.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified concentration could fall within

3.
the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit

4.
proposed operation.

their possible observations on the

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication.
Observations can be sent by fax (No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post, under reference
COMP/M.2609 (cid:151) Hewlett Packard/Compaq, to:

European Commission,
Directorate-General for Competition,
Directorate B (cid:151) Merger Task Force,
Rue Joseph II/Jozef II-straat 70,
B-1000 Brussels.

(1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.