Document ID: docfile:f53f93ba-b698-4716-844c-a035f1e33faf
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m3305_en.pdf
Title: ABN AMRO / GLOBAL GARDEN PRODUCTS
Date: 2003-11-26T00:00:00.000+01:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.3305", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "ABN AMRO / GLOBAL GARDEN PRODUCTS", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2003-11-25T23:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["ABN AMRO / GLOBAL GARDEN PRODUCTS"]}

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# Case No COMP/M.3305 - ABN AMRO / GLOBAL GARDEN PRODUCTS

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

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 26/11/2003

#### Also available in the CELEX database Document No 303M3305

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

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

#### Brussels, 26/11/2003

#### SG (2003) D/233068

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

#### **SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE**

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

To the notifying party

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

**Subject: Case No. COMP/M.3305 ñ ABN AMRO / Global Garden Products Notification of 28.10.2003 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 266, 5.11.2003, page 13.**

    On 28 October 2003, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which ABN AMRO Capital Limited (ìABN AMROî, United Kingdom), belonging to the ABN AMRO group, acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the Global Garden Products Sweden Fˆrvaltning AB (ìGGP Groupî, Sweden) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

    - for ABN AMRO : provision of financial services;

    - for GGP Group : production of garden tools and equipment.

[^1]: OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13.

[^2]: OJ L 180, 9. 7. 1997, p. 1; corrigendum 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.

    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

Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

[^3]: OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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