Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Equinor Ventures AS; Attributes SAS; ENGIE SA
BWB/Z-6919
On 22.04.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
By means of a capital increase, Equinor Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equinor ASA, intends to acquire 24.3% of the shares and 30% of the voting rights in Attributes, a company currently solely held by ENGIE Group Participations SA, which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of
ENGIE SA. The concentration concerns the tracking and tracing of digital certificates related to ESG qualities of natural gas.
K - TELECOMMUNICATION, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, CONSULTING, COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER INFORMATION SERVICE ACTIVITIES K 63 - Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and other information service activities
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 20.05.2025.
Entrepreneurs whose legal or economic interests are affected by the merger can bring in a written statement at the Federal Competition Authority or the Federal Cartel Prosecutor within 14 days from publication date.
Note: The intervening party has no right to a certain treatment of the statement and will not gain a party position.
Non-prohibition of the merger
The Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor have not applied for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court. The standstill obligation (§ 17 (1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 21.05.2025 .