Case No COMP/M.4895 - MOL / ITALIANA ENERGIA E SERVIZI

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 30/10/2007

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32007M4895

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

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 30-X-2007

SG-Greffe(2007) D/206712

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party(ies) :

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

1.On 25/09/2007 the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertaking MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc. ("MOL", Hungary) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Italiana Energia e Servizi S.p.A. ("IES", Italy) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for MOL: exploration and production of crude oil, natural gas and gas products; refining and marketing of crude oil products at both retail and wholesale level; transmission of natural gas, and production and sales of petrochemical products;

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

-- for IES: refining of crude oil and subsequent sales of each derivative oil products; automotive retail sales of fuels; sale of bitumen, and provision of catering services along common roads.

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 5, subparagraph c 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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