CELEX: 32016M8024
Language: en
Date: 2016-06-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14/06/2016 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8024 - NTT DATA INTERNATIONAL / IT SERVICES BUSINESS OF DELL) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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                                        Brussels, 14.6.2016
                                        C(2016) 3773 final

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|To the notifying party                                                 |                                                                       |

Dear Sirs,

Subject:    Case M.8024 – NTT DATA INTERNATIONAL / IT SERVICES BUSINESS OF DELL
         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]

 1. On 18 May 2016, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation  by
    which the undertaking NTT Data International L.L.C. ('NTT Data', United States) belonging to the NTT group acquires within  the  meaning  of
    Article 3(1)(b) of the  Merger Regulation control of the whole of Dell Services, which is the information technology  services  business  of
    Dell Inc. ('Dell', United States) and certain subsidiaries thereof by way of purchase of shares and of assets.[3]

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

      -     for NTT Data: NTT Data is a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Japan), a telecommunications company.

      -     for Dell Services: Dell Services provides a broad range of IT and business services, including  infrastructure,  cloud,  applications
           and business process services to commercial and governmental customers from Dell.

 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(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)
                                        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 186,25.05.2016, p.13.

[4]   OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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                                                                  PUBLIC VERSION

                                                           SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE