Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.5154 — CASC JV) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-07-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, electrical energy, exchange of information, merger control, transport network

C 180/24

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

17.7.2008

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.5154 — CASC JV)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 180/14)

1.
On 9 July 2008, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertakings Cegedel Net SA (‘Cegedel
Net’, Luxembourg) belonging to the Cegedel group, ELIA System Operator SA/NV (‘ELIA’, Belgium), EnBW
Transportnetze AG (‘EnBW TNG’, Germany) belonging to the EnBW group, E.ON Netz GmbH (‘ENE’,
Germany) belonging to the E.ON group, RTE EDF Transport SA (‘RTE’, France) belonging to the EDF group,
RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH (‘RWE TSO’, Germany) belonging to the RWE group and TenneT TSO BV
(‘TenneT TSO’, the Netherlands) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation
joint control of the newly established Capacity Allocation Service Company for Central Western Europe
implement and operate services related to the allocation of power
(‘CASC-CWE’). CASC-CWE will
transmission capacities on the common borders between Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and
the Netherlands.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— for undertaking Cegedel Net: operating the electricity transmission system owned by the Cegedel group

in Luxembourg,

— for undertaking ELIA:

is the owner and system operator of the electricity transmission system in

Belgium,

— for undertaking EnBW TNG: is the owner and operator of the transmission grid in the German State of

Baden-Württemberg,

— for undertaking ENE: operates the electricity transmission system owned by the E.ON group, which spans
the German States of Schleswig Holstein, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Hesse (partly), North Rhine-Westphalia
(partly) and Bavaria (except for the south-west),

— for undertaking RTE: is the owner and operator of the national transmission grid in France,

— for undertaking RWE TSO: is the operator of the transmission grid owned by the RWE group, which
mainly extends to the German States of North Rhine-Wesphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and the
South-West of Bavaria,

— for undertaking TenneT TSO:
national high voltage grids.

is the transmission system operator and administrator of the Dutch

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the

3.
scope of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

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

4.
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 ((32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post, under
reference number COMP/M.5154 — CASC JV, to the following address:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Competition
Merger Registry
J-70
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel

(1) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.