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Case No COMP/M.7609 - OMNES CAPITAL/ PREDICA PREVOYANCE/ QUADRAN/ QUADRICA

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 08/05/2015

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32015M7609

Office for Publications of the European Union L-2985 Luxembourg

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 8.5.2015 C(2015) 3268 final

PUBLIC VERSION

SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE

To the notifying parties

Dear Sirs,

Subject: Case M.7609 - OMNES CAPITAL/ PREDICA PREVOYANCE/ QUADRAN/ QUADRICA Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area

1.On 8 April 2015, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Omnes Capital, S.A.S., of France ("Omnes Capital"), Prédica Prévoyance Dialogue du Crédit Agricole, of France ("Predica") and Quadran S.A.S, of France ("Quadran") will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of the whole of Quadrica S.A.S, of France ("Quadrica") by way of purchase of shares and contract of management.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- Omnes Capital is a French asset management company active in several branches, notably in the renewable energy sector.

-- Predica is a subsidiary of the Group Crédit Agricole of France and is active in the insurance sector.

1OJ 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.

2OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 ("the EEA Agreement").

3Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 122, 16.04.2015, p. 7.

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.

-- Quadran is an independent producer of renewable electricity and mainly active in France.

-- Quadrica will hold shares in wind farms which prior to the transaction were held by certain subsidiaries of Quadran.

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 the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.

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) Alexander ITALIANER Director-General

OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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