CELEX: 32019M9385
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21/06/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9385 - Orange S.A. / SL Bidco B.V.) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 21.6.2019
                                                                C(2019) 4884 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9385 – ORANGE / SECURELINK
                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 24 May 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertaking Orange S.A. (“Orange”, France), acquires within the meaning of Article
        3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of SL Bidco B.V.
        (“SecureLink”, Netherlands) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Orange: the provision of electronic communications services mainly in the
              area of fixed-line, internet and mobile telephony in a number of countries
              worldwide;
             for SecureLink: the provision of cyber security infrastructure and managed
              services to corporate and institutional clients.
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
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 189, 05.6.2019, p. 45.
4       OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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--- 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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