CELEX: 32021M10344
Language: en
Date: 2021-08-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13/08/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10344 - ACCENTURE / UMLAUT) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                 Brussels, 13.08.2021
                                                                 C(2021) 6104 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                 Accenture plc
                                                                 l Grand Canal Square,
                                                                 Grand Canal Harbour
                                                                 Dublin 2
                                                                 Ireland
Subject:        Case M.10344 – ACCENTURE / UMLAUT
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
                (EC) No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 20 July 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Accenture plc
        (“Accenture”, Ireland) acquires, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger
        Regulation, sole control of the whole of Umlaut SE (“Umlaut”, Germany).3 The
        concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Accenture: global professional services organization providing management
              consulting, technology, and outsourcing services,
             for Umlaut: German-based professional service provider focusing on the area of
              engineering services, that is the provision of fulfilment services (such as design,
              development and optimization of complex products and features) and
              corresponding consulting services (including strategy, process, organizational and
              technical consulting), as well as engineering testing and validation services.
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
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 301, 28.7.2021, p. 6.
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---    paragraph 5(c) 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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