CELEX: 32013M6852
Language: en
Date: 2013-02-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 15/02/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6852 - CVC / CERVED HOLDING) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32013M6852

Commission Decision of 15/02/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6852 - CVC / CERVED HOLDING) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION      |
             Brussels, 15.2.2013
             C(2013) 991 final
             SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE PUBLIC VERSION
             |To the notifying party |
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6852 - CVC/ CERVED HOLDING Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  
            1.  On 18 January 2013 the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [2]  by which the undertaking CVC Capital Partners SICAV-FIS S.A (''CVC'') acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of Cerved Holding S.p.A. ("Cerved Holding") by way of purchase of shares. 
             2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              - for CVC: advice to and management of investment funds;
              - for Cerved Holding: provision of database and commercial information to third parties [3]  .
             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 [4]  . 
             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 L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the "Merger Regulation")
            [3]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 21, 24.01.2013, p.13
            [4] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.