CELEX: 32017M8383
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21/03/2017 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8383 - AMC / NORDIC CINEMA GROUP) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

|[pic]                             |EUROPEAN COMMISSION                                                                                      |

Brussels, 21.3.2017
C(2017) 2007 final

|PUBLIC VERSION                                  |

      To the notifying party

Subject:    Case M.8383 - AMC / NORDIC CINEMA GROUP
Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1] and  Article  57  of  the  Agreement  on  the  European
Economic Area[2]

Dear Sir or Madam,

 1. On 22 February 2017, the European Commission received notification of  a  proposed  concentration  pursuant  to  Article  4  of  the  Merger
    Regulation by which the undertaking AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. ("AMC", United States), belonging to the Dalian  Wanda  Group  (China),
    acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Nordic Cinema Group  Holding
    AB ("NCG", Sweden) by way of purchase of shares.[3]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

      –     for AMC: provision of cinema exhibition services in the United States and parts of Europe; the  Dalian  Wanda  Group  is  engaged  in
           three principal business activities – commercial properties, culture and finance and also  provides  cinema  exhibition  services  in
           particular in Australia and in China, and film production and distribution services particulary in China;

      –     for NCG: provision of cinema exhibition services, cinema screen advertising  and  film  distribution  services  in  Sweden,  Finland,
           Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

 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 5(b) 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)

Johannes LAITENBERGER
Director-General

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[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 65, 01.03.2017, p. 6.
[4]   OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.