CELEX: 32014M7080
Language: en
Date: 2014-01-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 09/01/2014 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.7080 - DIMENSION DATA / NEXTIRAONE ASSETS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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                                        Brussels, 09.01.2014
                                        C(2014) 85 final

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Subject:    Case No COMP/M.7080 – DIMENSION DATA/ NEXTIRAONE ASSETS
         Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[1]

 1. On 28 November 2013, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council  Regulation
    (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking Dimension Data Holdings Nederland B.V. ("Dimension Data", the  Netherlands)  controlled  by  Nippon
    Telegraph and Telephone Group ("NTT", Japan) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation  control  of  NextiraOne
    Group’s legal entities in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland,  Luxemburg,  the  Netherlands,  Poland,  Portugal,
    Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom ("NextiraOne Assets"), by way of purchase of shares.

 2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

      - for NTT: IT services and global telecommunication services to customers  outside  Japan,  and  regional  telecommunications  services  in
           Japan;

      - for Dimension Data: IT services;

      - for NextiraOne Assets: IT services.[2]

 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(c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of  certain  concentrations  under  Council
    Regulation (EC) No 139/2004[3].

 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
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[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]         Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, No C355, 5.12.2013, p. 10.

[3]   OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.

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                                                                  PUBLIC VERSION

                                                           SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE