CELEX: 32019M9253
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29/03/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9253 - Mercuria Energy Group Limited / Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 29.03.2019
                                                                C(2019) 2631 final
                                                                       PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9253 - Mercuria/Aegean
                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 7 March 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Mercuria Energy
        Group Limited (“Mercuria”, Cyprus), controlled by MDJ Oil Trading Limited acquires
        within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over the whole
        of the undertaking Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (“Aegean”, the Republic of the
        Marshall Islands) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             Mercuria is a global energy and commodities trading group, headquartered in
              Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates;.
             Aegean is an international marine fuel logistics company headquartered in Greece
              which markets and physically supplies bunker fuels to vessels in port, at sea, on rivers
              and other waterways around the globe.
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) of
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 C97, 14.3.2019, p. 4.
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---    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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