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  EUROPEAN COMMISSION  
Brussels,  17.4.2020  
C(2020 ) 2554 final  
PUBLIC VERSION  
To the notifying parties  
Subject : Case M. 9786  – RIL / BP / RBML JV  
Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation 
(EC) No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European 
Economic Area2  
Dear Sir or Madam,  
1. On 23 March 2020 , the European Commission received notification of a proposed 
concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger  Regulation by which Reliance 
Industries Limited (“RIL”) (India) and BP Global Investments Limited (“BP GIL”) 
(UK), controlled by BP, acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and of Article 
3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of the undertaking 
Reliance BP Mobility Limited (“RBML”) (India)  by way of purchase of shares  in a 
newly created company constituting a joint venture .3 
2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:  
 for RIL: hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and 
marketing, petrochemicals, retail, telecommunications and digital services,  
 for BP: exploration, production and marketing of crude oil and natural gas; 
refining, marketing, supply and transportation of refined products; petrochemicals 
and related products; and alternative energy,  
 for RBML: the sale of ground transportation fuels through petroleum retail 
outlets; the sale of motor spirit and high speed diesel to the transport segment, 
non-transport segment and on -demand fuelling; non -fuel businesses carried out at 
petroleum retail outle ts; the retail sale of lubricants; and the operation of RIL’s 
business of aviation fuel storage, into -plane fuel distribution facilities for the sale 
                                                 
1 OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 ( the ‘Merger Regulation ’). With effect from 1 December 2009,  the Treaty on 
the Functioning of the European Union ( ‘TFEU ’) has introduced certain changes, such as the 
replacement of ‘Community ’ by ‘Union ’ and ‘common market ’ by ‘internal market ’. The terminology 
of the TFEU will be used throughout this decision.  
2  OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p.  3 (the ‘EEA Agreement ’). 
3  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 108, 1.4.2020, p. 6. 

2 and/or supply of aviation fuel at airports in India as a service provider to RIL. The 
scope of the joint v enture is limited to operations in India.  
3. After examination of the notification, the European Commission has concluded that 
the notified operation falls within the scope of the Merger  Regulation  and of 
paragraph 5(a) of the Commission Notice on a simplifie d procedure for treatment of 
certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 .4 
4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the European 
Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it 
comp atible with the internal market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is 
adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger  Regulation  and Article 57 of 
the EEA Agreement . 
For the Commission  
 
 
(Signed)  
Olivier GUERSENT  
Director -General  
 
 
                                                 
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5 .