Document ID: docfile:a9570af7-817d-49a4-857d-36a57b15a685
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m2994_en.pdf
Title: DIXON / UNIEURO
Date: 2002-11-08T00:00:00.000+01:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.2994", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "DIXON / UNIEURO", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2002-11-07T23:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["DIXON / UNIEURO"]}

EN

# Case No COMP/M.2994 - DIXON / UNIEURO

Only the English text is available and authentic.

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

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 08/11/2002

#### Also available in the CELEX database Document No 302M2994

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

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

#### Brussels, 08/11/2002

#### SG (2002) D/232561

#### **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.2994 ñ DIXONS / UNIEURO Notification of 09.10.2002 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 250, 17.10.2002, p. 4**

    (1) On 09.10.2002, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the undertaking Dixons Group plc (ìDixonsî, UK) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking UniEuro S.pA. (ìUniEuroî, Italy) by way of purchase of shares.

    (2) 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.

[^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.

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

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

(3) 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 by Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

[^]: 2