Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
KELAG-Kärntner Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft; Spotty Smart Energy Partner GmbH
BWB/Z-7144
On 21.11.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
KELAG-Kärntner Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft (“KELAG”), based in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, intends to acquire 33% of the shares in Spotty Smart Energy Partner GmbH (“Spotty”), based in Vienna, by way of a capital increase. The project concerns the supply of energy to end customers and the purchase of energy produced by the end customers themselves.
The affected business sector, electricity supply.
D - ELECTRICITY, GAS, STEAM AND AIR CONDITIONING SUPPLY D 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, D 35.1 - Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 19.12.2025.
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 20.12.2025 .