CELEX: 32019M9083
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 01/03/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9083 - Saba Portugal - Parques De Estacionamento, S.A. / Egis Road Operation Portugal, S.A. / Viseu Car Park Assets) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 1.3.2019
                                                                C(2019)1842 final
                                                                     PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties :
Subject:        Case M.9083 – SABA PORTUGAL / EGIS PORTUGAL / VISEU CAR PARK
                ASSETS
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 5 February 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Saba Portugal —
        Parques de Estacionamento, S.A. (‘Saba Portgual’, Portugal) and Egis Road Operation
        Portugal, S.A. (‘Egis Portugal’, Portugal) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of
        the Merger Regulation joint control of the whole of Viseu Car Park Assets.
        The concentration is accomplished by way of a concession agreement.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        - for Saba Portugal: operation, maintenance and conservation of car parks and regulated
        areas (on-street parking),
        - for Egis Portugal: operation and maintenance of road infrastructures including the
        electronic and electrical equipment to support those activities,
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 60, 15.02.2019, p. 36.
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---    - Viseu Car Park Assets: a set of assets consisting of six car parks, three of them already
   operating and the remaining three to be built, and the regulated parking zone in the
   municipality of Viseu.
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 simplified 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 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)
                                                    Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                    Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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