Joined Cases C-464/23 P, C-465/23 P, C-467/23 P, C-468/23 P and C-470/23 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 June 2025 – EVH GmbH and Others v European Commission (Appeal – Competition – Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Concentration between undertakings – Market for the generation and wholesale supply of electricity – Acquisition by RWE AG of E.ON SE’s renewable and nuclear electricity generation assets – Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market and the functioning of the Agreement on the European Economic Area of 2 May 1992)
Date: 2025-06-26
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: competition policy, economic concentration, electrical energy, electricity supply, energy distribution, energy industry, energy production, merger control, renewable energy, wholesale selling








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C/2025/4424


18.8.2025






Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 June 2025 – EVH GmbH and Others v European Commission


(Joined Cases C-464/23 P, C-465/23 P, C-467/23 P, C-468/23 P and C-470/23 P)
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(Appeal - Competition - Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 - Concentration between undertakings - Market for the generation and wholesale supply of electricity - Acquisition by RWE AG of E.ON SE’s renewable and nuclear electricity generation assets - Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market and the functioning of the Agreement on the European Economic Area of 2 May 1992)
(C/2025/4424)
Language of the case: German

Parties


Appellants: EVH GmbH (C-464/23 P) Stadtwerke Leipzig GmbH (C-465/23 P), TEAG Thüringer Energie AG (C-467/23 P), EnergieVerbund Dresden GmbH (C-468/23 P), GGEW, Gruppen-Gas- und Elektrizitätswerk Bergstraße AG (C-470/23 P) (represented by: T. Heymann and I. Zenke, Rechtsanwälte)

Other parties to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: G. Meessen and I. Zaloguin, acting as Agents, and by T.G. Funke, Rechtsanwalt), Federal Republic of Germany (represented by J. Möller and R. Kanitz, acting as Agents), E.ON SE (represented initially by C. Barth, C. Grave, D.-J. dos Santos Goncalves and R. Seifert, Rechtsanwälte, and subsequently by C. Barth, A. Fuchs, C. Grave and D.-J. dos Santos Goncalves, Rechtsanwälte), RWE AG (represented initially by U. Scholz, J. Siegmund and J. Ziebarth, Rechtsanwälte, and subsequently by U. Scholz, J. Siegmund and M. von Armansperg, Rechtsanwälte)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






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Dismisses the appeals.










2.


Orders EVH GmbH to pay, in addition to bearing its own costs, those incurred by the European Commission, E.ON SE and RWE AG in Case C-464/23 P.










3.


Orders Stadtwerke Leipzig GmbH to pay, in addition to bearing its own costs, those incurred by the European Commission, E.ON SE and RWE AG in Case C-465/23 P.










4.


Orders TEAG Thüringer Energie AG to pay, in addition to bearing its own costs, those incurred by the European Commission, E.ON SE and RWE AG in Case C-467/23 P.










5.


Orders EnergieVerbund Dresden GmbH to pay, in addition to bearing its own costs, those incurred by the European Commission, E.ON SE and RWE AG in Case C-468/23 P.










6.


Orders GGEW, Gruppen-Gas- und Elektrizitätswerk Bergstraße AG to pay, in addition to bearing its own costs, those incurred by the European Commission, E.ON SE and RWE AG in Case C-470/23 P.










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Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs incurred in Cases C-464/23 P, C-465/23 P, C-467/23 P, C-468/23 P and C-470/23 P.






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            OJ C 321, 11.9.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/4424/oj
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