Case No COMP/M.4876 - GDFI / ENERGIE INVESTIMENTI

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 10/09/2007

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32007M4876

Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 10-IX-2007

SG-Greffe(2007) D/205408

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.4876 ñ GDFI/ Energie Investimenti Notification of 10/08/2007 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 192, 18/08/2007, p. 20

1.On 10/08/2007, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertaking GDF International S.A.S. ("GDFI", France) belonging to the group Gaz de France S.A. acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation sole control of the undertaking Energie Investimenti S.p.A. ("Energie Investimenti", Italy) by way of purchase of shares. Currently, GDFI exercises joint control over Energie Investimenti.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for GDFI: exploration, supply and distribution of gas; energy-related services;

-- for Energie Investimenti: supply of natural gas in Italy.

2.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph

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Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.

5, subparagraphs c and d of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.

For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.

For the Commission, signed, Philip LOWE Director General

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