CELEX: 32001M2523
Language: en
Date: 2001-11-23 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 23/11/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2523 - SIEMENS/AEM/E-UTILE) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)

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COMMISSION DECISION of 23/11/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2523 - SIEMENS/AEM/E-UTILE) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  

Official Journal 344 , 06/12/2001 P. 0002 - 0002

COMMISSION DECISION of 23/11/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2523 - SIEMENS/AEM/E-UTILE) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)Brussels, 23/11/2001SG (2001) D/292316+292317 To the notifying partiesDear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2523 - SIEMENS/AEM/E-Utile Notification of 19/10/2001 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 300, 26.10.2001, page 26[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 19.10.2001, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the undertakings AEM S.p.A (Italy) and Siemens Informatica S.p.A (Italy), which is controlled by Siemens (Germany) and Telecom Italia, acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control the undertaking E-Utile (Italy) by purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture.2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are: - E-Utile : IT-services for the utility sector in Italy - Siemens Informatica : IT-services in Italy - AEM : production, transmission, distribution and trading of electricity, distribution and trading of gas and heat as well as telecommunication network and services in northern Italy3. 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