25.5.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 186/13

1.

On 18 May 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking NTT Data International L.L.C. (‘NTT Data’, United States) belonging to the NTT group acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of Dell Services, which is the information technology services business of Dell Inc. (‘Dell’, United States) and certain subsidiaries thereof by way of purchase of shares and of assets.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for NTT Data: NTT Data is a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Japan), a telecommunications company,

—   for Dell Services: Dell Services provides a broad range of IT and business services, including infrastructure, cloud, applications and business process services to commercial and governmental customers from Dell.

3.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved. Pursuant to the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in this Notice.

4.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the Commission.

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (+32 22964301), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference M.8024 — NTT Data International/IT Services Business of Dell, to the following address: