# Commission Decision of 21 August 2007 declaring a concentration compatible with the common market and the functioning of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/M.4523 — Travelport/Worldspan) (notified under document number C(2007) 3938) (Only the English text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/781/EC), Division (18): In the Article 6(1)(c) Decision it was argued that the merger could theoretically lead to non-coordinated as well as coordinated effects. As regards non-coordinated effects, the Commission identified three theories of harm which it considered prima facie plausible. In addition to assessing the risk for coordinated effects, the Commission focused its in-depth investigation of non-coordinated effects on assessing whether:

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(i) the merger would allow the parties to use their strong market position downstream vis à vis TAs in order to increase prices vis à vis TSPs upstream (vertical cross market effects);
(ii) the merger would eliminate Worldspan as the alleged ‘pricing Maverick’ and therefore lead to post-merger price increases;
(iii) the merger would allow the parties to exploit their post-merger market power vis à vis TAs in Member States in which Galileo/Worldspan would have high market shares.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/781/division/2/3/1/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-781/division-2/3/1/2
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