CELEX: 32012M6449
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 27/01/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6449 - DCC ENERGY / SWEA ENERGI) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32012M6449

Commission Decision of 27/01/2012 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6449 - DCC ENERGY / SWEA ENERGI) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION     |
            Brussels , 27.01.2012
             PUBLIC VERSION C(2012)543 
             SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
            To the notifying party: | |
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6449 - DCC ENERGY/ SWEA ENERGI  Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  
            1.  On 20/12/2011, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which DCC Energy Limited ("DCC Energy", Ireland) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of Swea Energi Holding AB ("Swea", Sweden) by way of a purchase of shares.
              The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             - - for DCC Energy: is mainly active in the sale, marketing and distribution of oil and LPG in Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Austria; 
              - for Swea: is active in the Swedish market for fuel distribution. The company distributes heating oil, diesel, gasoline, wood-pellets and lubricants in Sweden [2]  .
            2.  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 the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 [3]  .  
            3.  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.
             For the Commission (signed) Alexander ITALIANER Director General
            [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]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 381, 30.12.2011, p. 9
            [3] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.