CELEX: 32021M10177
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21/05/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10177 - REPSOL / SUEZ / ECOPLANTA) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 21.05.2021
                                                                C(2021) 3803 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Suez Recycling and Recovery Spain,
                                                                S.L.
                                                                Paseo de la Zona Franca, 48
                                                                08038 Barcelona
                                                                Spain
                                                                Repsol Industrial Transformation, S.L.
                                                                Calle Méndez Álvaro, 44
                                                                28045 Madrid
                                                                Spain
Subject:        Case M.10177 — Repsol/Suez/Ecoplanta
                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 27 April 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertakings Suez Recycling and Recovery Spain, S.L., part of the Suez Group
        (“Suez”, France) and Repsol Industrial Transformation, S.L., part of the Repsol Group
        (“Repsol”, Spain) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the
        Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of the undertaking Ecoplanta
        Molecular Recycling Solution, S.L. (“Ecoplanta”, Spain), currently controlled by
        Suez, by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Suez: water and waste management 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 170, 6.05.2021, p. 9.
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---        for Repsol: the manufacture and marketing of all kinds of chemical products,
        including petrochemicals,
       for Ecoplanta: the development, construction and operation of a waste-to-
        biofuels/chemicals facility to transform municipal solid waste-derived feedstock
        into biomethanol in the province of Tarragona, Spain.
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
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)
                                                  Olivier GUERSENT
                                                  Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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