15.1.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 12/1

15.1.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 12/2

(1)

The European Statistical Advisory Committee (‘ESAC’) comprises 24 members.

(2)

According to Article 4(1)(a) of Decision No 234/2008/EC, 12 members should be appointed by the Commission.

(3)

Member States provided the Commission with a list of candidates with well-established qualifications in the field of statistics.

(4)

By Commission Decision No 2014/C 138/02 (2), the Commission appointed eight members of the ESAC and established a reserve list to be used in case of resignation or unexpected unavailability of an appointed member.

(5)

The Commission should appoint the remaining four members, after having duly consulted the European Parliament and the Council.

(6)

In the appointment of these four members, the Commission has endeavoured to ensure that they represent in equal measure, users, respondents and other stakeholders in European statistics.

(7)

The Commission should update the reserve list to be used in case of resignations or unexpected unavailability of the appointed members,

Ms Ariane KÖNIG

Mr David HAND

Ms Biruta SLOKA

Mr Claudiu HERTELIU.

Mr Ian Philip CASSAR

Mr Marcel RÉMON

Mr Eskil WADENSJÖ

Mr Jan FISCHER.

15.1.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 12/4

1.

On 8 January 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by Activision Blizzard Inc. (‘Activision Blizzard’, United States of America) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) sole control over King Digital Entertainment plc. (‘King’, Ireland) by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for Activision Blizzard: development and publishing of interactive entertainment, including PC and console games;

—   for King: development and publishing of mobile games.

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.

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 number M.7866 — Activision Blizzard/King, to the following address:

15.1.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 12/5

1.

On 8 January 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Airbus Safran Launchers (‘ASL’, France), the newly joint venture jointly controlled by Airbus Group S.E. (‘Airbus’, the Netherlands) and Safran SA (‘Safran’, France), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over Arianespace Participation SA and Arianespace SA (together, ‘Arianespace’, France), by way of purchase of the entire shareholding currently held by CNES in Arianespace.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for ASL: development and production of launch vehicles in the civil and military launchers sectors, as well as satelllite sub-systems and equipment,

—   for Arianespace: provision of launch services to private and institutionnal satellite operators through the fleet of launchers developed by ESA.

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.

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 e-mail to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7724 — ASL/Arianespace, to the following address:

15.1.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 12/6

1.

On 7 January 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Dentsply International Inc. (‘Dentsply’, United States) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of Sirona Dental Systems, Inc. (‘Sirona’, United States) by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

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.

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 number M.7822 — Dentsply/Sirona to the following address:

15.1.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 12/7