CELEX: 32010M6075
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14/12/2010 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6075 - DHC / VUE ENTERTAINMENT INVESTMENT) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32010M6075

Commission Decision of 14/12/2010 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6075 - DHC / VUE ENTERTAINMENT INVESTMENT) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

         (.PICT.) |EUROPEAN COMMISSION     |
            Brussels , 14/12/2010
             PUBLIC VERSION SG-Greffe(2010) D/20060
             C(2010) 9350
             MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION
             SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
             To the notifying party:    
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6075 – DHC/ VUE ENTERTAINMENT INVESTMENT
                                 Notification of 12.11.2010 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 315, 19.11.2010, p. 14
            1.  On 12.11.2010, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking DHC Limited (‘DHC’, Cayman Islands) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the undertaking Vue Entertainment Investment Limited (‘Vue’, United Kingdom) by way of purchase of shares.
              2.     The business activities of the undertakings concerned are: 
                         — for DHC: private equity fund manager, 
                         — for Vue: cinema exhibition services.
             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(b) 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 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 C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.