CELEX: 32005M3748
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21/04/2005 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.3748 - MTFG / UFJ) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32005M3748

Commission Decision of 21/04/2005 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.3748 - MTFG / UFJ) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  


	| |Brussels, 21.04.2005SG-Greffe(2005) D/201895To the notifying partiesDear Sirs,Subject : Case No. COMP/M.3748 – MITSUBISHI TOKYO / UFJ Notification of 22/03/2005 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C79, 01/04/2005, p.141.  On 22/03/2005 , the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertakings Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Inc (“MTFG”, Japan) and UFJ Holdings, Inc (“UFJ”, Japan), 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 MTFG : Provision of financial services, including banking, assets management and securities.- for UFJ : Provision of financial services, including banking, assets management and securities.3.  After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph 5, subparagraph c, of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004[2].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 (EC) No. 139/2004.For the Commissionsigned Neelie KROES Member of the Commission[1] OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1[2] OJ C 56, 05.3.2005 p.32MERGER PROCEDUREARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISIONSIMPLIFIED PROCEDUREPUBLIC VERSION