COMMISSION DECISION of 02/05/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2414 - VATTENFALL/HEW) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic) Official Journal 140 , 12/05/2001 P. 0013 - 0013 COMMISSION DECISION of 02/05/2001 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.2414 - VATTENFALL/HEW) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic) To the notifying party: Dear Madam and/or Sir, Subject: Case No. COMP/M. 2414 - Vattenfall/HEW Notification of 23 March 2001 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No.
4064/89 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 104, 04.04.2001, page 8 [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. 1. On 23 March 2001, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the Swedish undertaking Vattenfall AB (Vattenfall) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the German undertaking Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke Aktiengesellschaft (HEW) by way of purchase of shares.
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are : - for undertaking Vattenfall: generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity; - for undertaking HEW : generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity. 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 [2]. [2] OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p.
32. 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) Mario MONTI Member of the Commission