CELEX: 32003M3038
Language: en
Date: 2003-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30/01/2003 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.3038 - ALDEASA / COMPASS / FOODLASA) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)

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Commission Decision of 30/01/2003 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.3038 - ALDEASA / COMPASS / FOODLASA) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  

Official Journal 028 , 06/02/2003 P. 0015 - 0015

Commission Decision of 30/01/2003 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.3038 - ALDEASA / COMPASS / FOODLASA) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  To the notifying parties Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),Subject: Case No. COMP/M.3038 - ALDEASA/COMPASS/FOODLASA Notification of 19.12.2002 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 4 of 09.01.2003, page 3.[1]   OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrected version OJ L 257 of 21.9.1990, p. 13, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97, OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.1. On 19.12.2003, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the undertaking Aldeasa S.A. ("Aldeasa", Spain) and Compass Group Holding Spain, S.L. ("Compass", Spain) belonging to Compass Group PLC (United Kingdom) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking Foodlasa S.L. ("Foodlasa", Spain), now wholly owned by Aldeasa, by way of purchase of shares. 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are : - for undertaking Aldeasa :  retail sales at airports, - for undertaking Compass :  contract catering, concession catering and vending    services, - for undertaking Foodlasa :  the concession of foodservices in the airport of    Valencia and Ibiza (Spain).3. After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 and of paragraph 4, subparagraphs (a) and (c), of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 [2].  [2]   OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement.  This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89.For the CommissionSigned  by Mario MONTI Member of the Commission