CELEX: 32000M2109
Language: en
Date: 2000-11-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 22/11/2000 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2109 - 4* REUTERS/VERLAGSGRUPPE HANDELSBLATT/METEOR) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32000M2109

COMMISSION DECISION of 22/11/2000 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2109 - 4* REUTERS/VERLAGSGRUPPE HANDELSBLATT/METEOR) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)  

Official Journal 361 , 15/12/2000 P. 0006 - 0006

COMMISSION DECISION of 22/11/2000 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2109 - 4* REUTERS/VERLAGSGRUPPE HANDELSBLATT/METEOR) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)Brussels, 22/11/2000       To the notifying parties:Dear Madam and Sir,Subject: Case No. COMP/M.  2109  - Reuters/Handelsblatt/Meteor  Notification of 20.10.2000 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 [1][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.  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 310, 28/10/2000, page 191. On 20.10.2000, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the undertakings Reuters Group PLC  and Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH belonging to the Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking Meteor GmbH & Co. KG by way of purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture.2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are : - for Reuters Group: development and sale of information based products and related services; - for Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt: publishing of newspapers and financial magazines, news television activities and related services; -   for Meteor: provision of web based financial information to private investors.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 Commission,   (signed)   Mario MONTI   Member of the Commission