CELEX: 32002M2829
Language: en
Date: 2002-08-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23/08/2002 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.2829 - VIVENDI ENVIRONMENT / SOUTHERN WATER UK) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)

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Commission Decision of 23/08/2002 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2829 - VIVENDI ENVIRONMENT / SOUTHERN WATER UK) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  

Official Journal 205 , 29/08/2002 P. 0009 - 0009

Commission Decision of 23/08/2002 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2829 - VIVENDI ENVIRONMENT / SOUTHERN WATER UK) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)To the notifying party: Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2829 Vivendi Environment/ Southern Water UK Notification of 19/07/2002 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 181, 30.07.2002, page 10[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 19/07/2002, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89  by which the undertaking Vivendi Water UK belonging to the group Vivendi Universal acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertakings JVCo and of Southern Water by way of purchase of shares.2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :- for Vivendi Water UK: supply and distribution of drinking water and wastewater management-  JVCo : parent company to Southern Water- Southern Water:  water and sewerage service supply 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 CommissionDavid Byrne Member of the Commission