CELEX: 32001M2605
Language: en
Date: 2001-11-12 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 12/11/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2605 - MEAD/WESTVACO) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)

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COMMISSION DECISION of 12/11/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2605 - MEAD/WESTVACO) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  

Official Journal 328 , 23/11/2001 P. 0010 - 0010

COMMISSION DECISION of 12/11/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2605 - MEAD/WESTVACO) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)Brussels, 12/11/2001SG (2001) D/292110-292111 To the notifying partiesDear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2605 - Mead/Westvaco Notification of 05.10.01 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 288 of 13/10/2001, page 4[1]   OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrected version OJ L 257 of 21.9.1990, p. 13, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97, OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.1. On 5 October 2001, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the undertakings The Mead Corporation ("Mead"), USA, and Westvaco Corporation ("Westvaco"), USA, enter into a full merger within the meaning of Article 3(1)(a) of the Council Regulation. 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:-for undertaking Mead: paper, paperboard, packaging products, pulp, lumber, consumer and office supplies.-for undertaking Westvaco: paper, paperboard, packaging products, specialty chemicals, timber and land development and lumber.3. After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 and of paragraph 4, subparagraph c of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 [2].  [2]   OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.4. 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 (EEC) No. 4064/89.For the CommissionSigned,  Mario MONTI Member of the Commission