CELEX: 32020M9848
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22/12/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9848 - CMI / ROCKAWAY / MR MC / GJIRAFA TECH) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 22.12.2020
                                                                C(2020) 9627 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9848 – CMI / ROCKAWAY / MR MC / GJIRAFA TECH
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
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                (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 19 November 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Czech Media
        Invest a.s. (“CMI”, Czechia), Rockaway Capital SE (“Rockaway”, Czechia) and Mr
        Mergim Cahani, through Gjirafa, Inc. (“Gjirafa”, United States of America), acquire
        within the meaning of Articles 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control
        over the whole of Gjirafa Tech (Czechia), by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             CMI: ultimate parent company of a private investment group that focuses on the
              acquisition and management of media assets in Central and Western Europe,
             Rockaway: parent company of a business group primarily active in the area of e-
              commerce, e-travel, media, book publishing and venture capital,
             Gjirafa: operating an Albanian-language search engine, a video/news content
              platform, an online marketing platform and an e-commerce platform, almost
              exclusively in Albania, the Republic of Kosovo and North Macedonia,
             Gjirafa Tech: a joint venture which will be active in the sale of software packages
              and other related services on a software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) basis and primarily
              focused on Czechia.
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 412, 30.11.2020, p. 10.
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
   paragraphs 5(a) and 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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