CELEX: 32012M6741
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30/11/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6741 - VIVENDI GROUP / N-C+ ENTITY) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32012M6741

Commission Decision of 30/11/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6741 - VIVENDI GROUP / N-C+ ENTITY) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION      |
             Brussels, 30.11.2012
             PUBLIC VERSION  C(2012) 8992
             SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
             To the notifying party:
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M. 6741 - VIVENDI GROUP / N-C+ ENTITY Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  
             1. On 26/10/2012, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Canal+ Group SA, ("Canal+", France ultimately owned by Vivendi SA ("Vivendi")) acquires, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation, control of the whole of N/C + Entity ("N/C+", Poland) by way of contract.
             2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              - for Canal+: the production, distribution and marketing of television channels and services over all platforms,
              - for N/C+: the provision of pay-TV services via direct to home satellite in Poland. [2]  
             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(d) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 [3]  .  
             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.
             For the Commission
             Signed Alexander ITALIANER Director General
            [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]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 339, 07/11/2012, p.12
            [3] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.