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Merger control
Case reference
Ccent/2024/2 - Urbaser / Ecosourcing*Carmona
Acquired
Carmona - Gestão Global de Resíduos Perigosos, S.A.
Description
The Carmona Group focuses its activity on the environmental sector, namely on the management of non-urban waste, including the collection, transport, pre-treatment and storage of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, recycling, environmental damage remediation and industrial cleaning.
Acquired
Ecosourcing - Gestão Ambiental Energética, Lda.
Description
The Carmona Group focuses its activity on the environmental sector, namely on the management of non-urban waste, including the collection, transport, pre-treatment and storage of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, recycling, environmental damage remediation and industrial cleaning.
Acquiring
Urbaser, S.A.U.
Description
It is the parent company of an international group operating in the urban services, waste treatment and water management sectors, with headquarters in Spain. It is controlled by Platinum Equity, LLC, an American international private equity investment company that operates, through its subsidiaries, in various sectors, such as finance, consumer goods, real estate, healthcare, technology, industry, media or natural resources. In Portugal, Urbaser is present in the collection and treatment of hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste, as well as in the collection, transport, and treatment of used oils.
Sector
  • Environment and Waste Management
Activity (NACE)
  • E381 - Waste collection
  • E382 - Waste treatment and disposal
Applicable legislation
Art. 37(1)(a) and (c) (Law 19)
Notification thresholds
Market Share and Turnover thresholds
Type of merger
Horizontal
Cooperation with sector regulators
Status
Closed
Type of Investigation
Phase 1
AdC’s decision
Non-opposition
Case description

The concentration operation in question consists of the acquisition by URBASER, S.A.U (“Urbaser”) of exclusive control over the companies Ecosourcing – Gestão Ambiental Energética, Lda. and Carmona – Gestão Global de Residuos Perigosos, S.A. and its subsidiaries (together “Group Carmona”).

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