2002/343/EC: Commission Decision of 9 February 2000 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market and the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/M.1641 — Linde/AGA) (Text with EEA relevance.)(notified under number C(2000) 352)

• Articles: 3

Article 1

The notified concentration by which Linde Aktiengesellschaft would acquire sole control of the entire share capital of AGA AB is hereby declared compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement, provided that the commitments entered into by the notifying party and set out in the Annex to this Decision are complied with.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to:

Linde AG Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 21 D - 65189 Wiesbaden

Done at Brussels, 9 February 2000.

For the Commission

Mario Monti

Member of the Commission

(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.

(3) OJ C 110, 7.5.2002.

(4) Turnover has been calculated in accordance with Article 5(1) of the Merger Regulation and with the Commission notice on calculation of turnover (OJ C 66, 2.3.1998, p. 25). Turnover before 1 January 1999 has been calculated by applying the average ecu exchange rates and converting into euro on a one-for-one basis.

(5) Parts of this text have been edited to ensure that confidential information is not disclosed; those parts are enclosed in square brackets and marked with an asterisk.

(6) Salomon Smith Barney, Industrial Gases: Industry Report, July 1998, p. 178.

(7) Salomon Smith Barney, Industrial Gases: Industry Report, July 1998, p. 178.

(8) Salomon Smith Barney, Industrial Gases: Industry Report, July 1998, p. 178.

(9) Salomon Smith Barney, Industrial Gases: Industry Report, July 1998, p. 178.

(10) Salomon Smith Barney, Industrial Gases: Industry Report, July 1998, p. 178.

(11) Linde, Kompetenz vor Ort (Responsibility on the Ground), p. 32.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

The full original text of the conditions and obligations referred to in Article 1 may be consulted on the following Commission website:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/index_en.html