In this case, the Commission considered that the joint venture GD NET BV was simply a vehicle set up to enable the parent companies (the five postal administrations) to participate in the resulting JVC joint venture in order to facilitate decision- making amongst themselves and to ensure that the parent companies spoke and acted as one; this configuration would ensure that the parent companies could exercise a decisive influence with the other acquiring company, TNT, over the resulting joint venture JVC and would avoid the situation where that other acquirer could exercise sole control because of the postal administrations' inability to reach a unified position on any decision.
V tem primeru je Komisija menila, da je skupno podjetje GD NET BV le nosilec, ustvarjen, da matičnim družbam (petim poštnim upravam) omogoči udeležbo pri tem skupnem podjetju JVC, ki bi omogočil odločanje med njimi in zagotovil, da matična podjetja govorijo in delajo kot eno; taka konfiguracija bi zagotovila, da bi matična družba lahko odločilno vplivala na drugo prevzemno družbo, TNT, glede tega skupnega podjetja in bi se izognila situaciji, kjer bi ta drugi prevzemnik lahko izvajal izključni nadzor zaradi nezmožnosti poštnih uprav, da bi dosegle skupno stališče o kakršnih koli odločitvah.