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Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m4584_20070326_20310_en.pdf
Title: KARSTADTQUELLE / THOMAS COOK
Date: 2007-03-26T00:00:00.000+02:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.4584", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "KARSTADTQUELLE / THOMAS COOK", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2007-03-25T22:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["KARSTADTQUELLE / THOMAS COOK"]}

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# Case No COMP/M.4584 - KARSTADTQUELLE  / THOMAS COOK

Only the English text is available and authentic.

#### **REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE**

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 26/03/2007

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32007M4584

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

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

#### Brussels, 26/03/2007

SG-Greffe(2006) D/201694

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

#### **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.4584 – KarstadtQuelle / Thomas Cook Notification of 19/02/2007 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C047, 01/03/2007, p. 14**

    On 19 February 2007, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking KarstadtQuelle AG ("KarstadtQuelle", Germany) acquires within the meaning of Article 3 (1)(b) of the Council Regulation sole control of the whole of the undertaking Thomas Cook AG ("Thomas Cook", Germany) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

    - for KarstadtQuelle: European department store and mail order group;

    - for Thomas Cook: international tourism company active in the leisure travel sector.

    After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph

[^1]: OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1

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

5, subparagraph d, of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.

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 (EC) No. 139/2004.

For the Commission signed Philip LOWE Director General

[^2]: OJ C 56, 05.3.2005 p.32

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