CELEX: 32011M6298
Language: en
Date: 2011-08-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 09/08/2011 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6298 - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC / TELVENT) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32011M6298

Commission Decision of 09/08/2011 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6298 - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC / TELVENT) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

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            Brussels , 9.8.2011 C(2011) 5901 final
              PUBLIC VERSION
             SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
             To the notifying party
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6298 - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC / TELVENT Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  
            1.  On 11 July 2011, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [2]  by which the undertaking Schneider Electric SA ('Schneider Electric', France) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Telvent GIT SA ('Telvent', Spain) by way of public bid.
            2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are: 
            -  for Schneider Electric: holding of an international group of companies that designs, manufactures and sells products and systems in energy management; 
            -  for Telvent: provision of IT global services and of high added value integrated automation solutions, mainly to the energy, transport, agriculture and environment sectors. [3]  .
            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) i & ii 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.
             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] OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the "Merger Regulation")
            [3]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 210, 16/07/2011, p.32
            [4] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.