CELEX: 32020M9907
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26/11/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9907 - EXCLUSIVE NETWORKS / VERACOMP BUSINESS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                 Brussels, 26.11.2020
                                                                 C(2020) 8482 final
                                                                                PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                 To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9907 – EXCLUSIVE NETWORKS / VERACOMP BUSINESS
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
                (EC) No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
                Economic Area2
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 4 November 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Exclusive
        Networks SAS (“Exclusive Networks”, France) acquires within the meaning of
        Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over certain assets and all
        subsidiaries currently owned by Veracomp SA to operate its business for the
        wholesale of IT products (“Veracomp Business”, Poland), by way of purchase of
        assets.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             Exclusive Networks: wholesale distribution of IT products dedicated to enterprise
              IT security and software defined data centres (SDDC), in various countries
              around the world.
             Veracomp Business: wholesale distribution of a range of diverse IT                  products
              predominantly in the Central and Eastern Europe region (including                    Poland,
              Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia,                     Serbia,
              Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Montenegro,                     Albania,
              Kosovo, North Macedonia).
1       OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’). With effect from 1 December 2009, the Treaty on
        the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’) has introduced certain changes, such as the
        replacement of ‘Community’ by ‘Union’ and ‘common market’ by ‘internal market’. The terminology
        of the TFEU will be used throughout this decision.
2       OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 (the ‘EEA Agreement’).
3       Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 381, 12.11.2020, p. 31.
Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE
Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË
Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.
 ---pagebreak--- 3. After examination of the notification, the European Commission has concluded that
   the notified operation falls within the scope of the Merger Regulation and of
   paragraph 6 of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of
   certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.4
4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the European
   Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it
   compatible with the internal market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is
   adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation and Article 57 of
   the EEA Agreement.
                                                  For the Commission
                                                  (Signed)
                                                  Olivier GUERSENT
                                                  Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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