CELEX: 32020M9782
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16/06/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9782 - EXPERIAN / BERTELSMAN / INFORMA) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 16.06.2020
                                                                C(2020) 4110 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9782 – EXPERIAN / BERTELSMAN / INFORMA
                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 20 May 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Bertelsmann
        SE & Co. KGaA (“Bertelsmann”, Germany) and Experian plc (“Experian”, UK)
        acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint
        control of the whole of Informa Solutions GmbH (“Informa”, Germany) by way of
        purchase of shares, the latter being a newly created company constituting a joint
        venture.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             Experian: Global information services company which provides software and
              services to businesses that allows them to manage credit risk, minimise the
              incidence of fraud and verify the identity of individuals;
             Bertelsmann: a media, services and education company that operates in about 50
              countries, in particular, in television, magazines publishing, music publishing,
              education services;
             Informa: currently a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Bertelsmann. Post
              transaction, it will bring together the activities of Experian and Bertelsmann in
              credit reference bureau services, fraud prevention and identity services,
              creditworthiness data and developing of scoring solutions, automation of claims
              management processes and decisioning and analytics services.
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 183, 03.6.2020, p. 9.
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
   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)
                                                  Olivier GUERSENT
                                                  Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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