CELEX: 32019M9598
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 05/12/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9598 - ALLIANZ / T&R) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                               Brussels, 05.12.2019
                                                               C(2019) 8874 final
                                                                               PUBLIC VERSION
                                                               To the notifying party
Subject:         Case M.9598 – ALLIANZ / T&R
                 Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
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                 (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                 Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 13 November 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Allianz Capital
        Partners GmbH (“ACP”, Germany), belonging to the group Allianz SE (Germany),
        acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control
        of the whole of Autobahn Tank & Rast Gruppe GmbH & Co KG (“T&R”, Germany)
        by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        —       ACP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allianz SE, the ultimate parent company
                of the Allianz Group. The Allianz Group offers a comprehensive range of
                insurance and asset management products and services to both private and
                corporate customers in more than 70 countries,
        —       T&R is a provider of food services, retail goods, hotel accommodation and fuel
                on German motorways.
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(b) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of
        certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.4
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 394, 21.11.2019, p. 8 and C 405 of
        2.12.2019, p. 20.
4       OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE
Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË
Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.
 ---pagebreak--- 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
   compatible 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)
                                                  Cecilio MADERO VILLAREJO
                                                  Acting Director-General
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