Document ID: docfile:d5b90b28-7445-478d-8b30-a078e5fde166
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m2915_en.pdf
Title: DLJ CAPITAL FUNDING INC / HAMSARD-BOWATER
Date: 2002-09-05T00:00:00.000+02:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.2915", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "DLJ CAPITAL FUNDING INC / HAMSARD-BOWATER", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2002-09-04T22:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["DLJ CAPITAL FUNDING INC / HAMSARD-BOWATER"]}

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# Case No COMP/M.2915 - DLJ CAPITAL FUNDING INC  / HAMSARD-BOWATER

Only the English text is available and authentic.

#### **REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE**

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 05/09/2002

#### Also available in the CELEX database Document No 302M2915

[^]: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg

#### **COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES**

#### Brussels, 05/09/2002

#### SG (2002) D/231501

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

#### **MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION**

#### **SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE**

To the notifying party

Dear Sirs,

**Subject: Case No. COMP/M.2915 ñ DLJ Capital Funding Inc / Hamsard-Bowater Notification of 02/08/2002 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 193, 13.08.2002, page 30**

    On 02.08.2002, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the undertaking DLJ Capital Funding Inc, Delaware, USA (DLJ) belonging to the Credit Suisse group acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of Hamsard 2064 Ltd, UK (Hamsard), which controls the British undertaking Bowater Windows Ltd (Bowater) by way of purchase of shares.

[^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.

[^]: Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.

    The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

    - for DLJ: Corporate investments

    - for Hamsard: Holding company for Bowater

    - for Bowater: Design, extrusion, fabrication and installation of PVC windows and doors

    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 b of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89.

    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

[^2]: OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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