CELEX: 32021M10178
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 05/03/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10178 - ENI / ALDRO EYS / INSTALACIONES MD) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 05.03.2021
                                                                C(2021) 1625 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Eni S.p.A.
                                                                Piazzale Enrico Mattei, 1
                                                                00144 – Rome
                                                                Italy
Subject: Case M.10178 – Eni/Aldro EyS/Instalaciones MD
              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
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              Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 11 February 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertaking Eni gas e luce S.p.A. (“Eni G&L”, Italy), a wholly owned subsidiary of
        Eni S.p.A. (“Eni”, Italy), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger
        Regulation control over the whole of Aldro Energia y Soluciones, S.L.U. (“Aldro
        EyS”, Spain) and Instalaciones Martinez Diez, S.L.U. (“Instalaciones M D”, Spain),
        both of them currently wholly owned subsidiaries of Aldro Energy, S.L.U. (“Aldro
        Energy”, Spain), the seller, by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Eni: a global oil and gas group, active in exploration, production, refining and
              selling operations, electricity and chemistry. Its wholly owned subsidiary Eni
              G&L is active in the supply of electricity and natural gas, as well as energy
              solutions across the EU.
             for Aldro EyS: the supply of electricity and natural gas in Spain and Portugal.
             for Instalaciones M D: the provision of back office and customer care services to
              Aldro EyS.
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 58, 18.02.2021, p. 84.
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--- 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(c) 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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