CELEX: 32005M3857
Language: en
Date: 2005-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29/07/2005 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.3857 - SITA / FLUGHAFEN DÜSSELDORF / FDITG) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32005M3857

Commission Decision of 29/07/2005 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.3857 - SITA / FLUGHAFEN DÜSSELDORF / FDITG) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  


	| |Brussels, 29.07.2005SG-Greffe(2005) D/204117To the notifying partiesDear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),Subject : Case No. COMP/M.3857 - SITA/Flughafen Düsseldorf/FDITG Notification of 01.07.2005 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 172, 12.7.2005, p. 19.1.  On 01.07.2005 , the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertakings SITA Information Networking Computing BV (“SITA”, The Netherlands) and Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH (“Flughafen Düsseldorf”, Germany), controlled by the city of Düsseldorf (“Stadt Düsseldorf”, Germany) and Hochtief AG (“Hochtief”, Germany), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of Flughafen Düsseldorf Informationstechnologie GmbH (“FDITG”, Germany), currently solely controlled by Flughafen Düsseldorf, by way of purchase of shares.2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:- For SITA: provision of information and telecommunications services to global air transport and related industries- for Flughafen Düsseldorf: operation of Düsseldorf airport in Germany- for FDITG: provision and marketing of IT and telecommunications services for the campus of the Düsseldorf airport and business park “Airport City”3.  After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph 5, subparagraphs a and c, of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004[2].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 (EC) No. 139/2004.For the Commissionsigned Neelie KROES Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1

[2] OJ C 56, 05.3.2005 p.32MERGER PROCEDUREARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISIONSIMPLIFIED PROCEDUREPUBLIC VERSION