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Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11247 – INEOS / CERTAIN ASSETS OF TOTALENERGIES)
Date: 2024-02-15
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: chemical industry, economic concentration, merger control, oil industry, petrochemicals, special chemicals








C_202401596EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/1596


15.2.2024






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.11247 – INEOS / CERTAIN ASSETS OF TOTALENERGIES)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/1596)


1.   
On 7 February 2024, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1).
This notification concerns the following undertakings:






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Ineos AG (‘Ineos’, Switzerland),










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Certain assets and contracts at the Lavéra petrochemical site, as well as parts of the connected East-Axis ethylene pipeline (the ‘Target’, France), most of which are currently operated jointly with TotalEnergies Petrochemicals France SA and TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining SA.




Ineos will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of the Target.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares, assets and contracts.


2.   
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are the following:






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Ineos is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, speciality chemicals and other oil products,










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The Target constitutes of the following manufacturing assets and contracts at the Lavéra petrochemical site: (i) ethylene steam cracker unit (Naphtachimie SA, ‘Naphtachimie’), (ii) an aromatics unit (GIE Pour l’Extraction des Aromatiques du Sud-Est, ‘Gexaro’), (iii) a polypropylene unit (Appryl SNC, ‘Appryl’), (iv) naphtha storage infrastructure (‘GIE 3TC’), and (v) certain related contracts, customer lists and inventory; as well as parts of the connected East-Axis ethylene pipeline.






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. The following reference should always be specified:
M.11247 – INEOS / CERTAIN ASSETS OF TOTALENERGIES
Observations can be sent to the Commission by email or by post. Please use the contact details below:
Email: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu
Postal address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË







(1)  
            OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1596/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-125/24, Palmstråle : Request for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen (Sweden) lodged on 15 February 2024 – AA v Allmänna ombudet hos Tullverket
Date: 2024-02-15
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU customs procedure, VAT, customs debt, exemption from customs duties, import (EU), import levy, re-import, tax exemption








C_202402599EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/2599


22.4.2024






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen (Sweden) lodged on 15 February 2024 – AA v Allmänna ombudet hos Tullverket


(Case C-125/24, Palmstråle
                (1)
)

(C/2024/2599)
Language of the case: Swedish

Referring court

Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: AA

Defendant: Allmänna ombudet hos Tullverket

Question referred

Must Article 143(1)(e) of the VAT Directive (2) and Articles 86(6) and 203 of the Union Customs Code (3) be interpreted as meaning that both the substantive and the procedural conditions laid down in Article 203 must be fulfilled in order for relief from import duty – and thus exemption from VAT – to be granted on re-importation where a customs debt under Article 79 of the Union Customs Code has been incurred through non-compliance with the presentation obligation laid down in Article 139(1) of the Union Customs Code?


(1)  The name of the present case is a fictitious name. It does not correspond to the real name of any party to the proceedings.

(2)  Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1).

(3)  Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ 2013 L 269, p. 1).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/2599/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)