Judgments of the Court of Justice in Cases C-464/23 P, C-465/23 P, C-467/23 P, C-468/23 P, C-470/23 P, C-466/23 P, C-469/23 P, C-484/23 P, C-485/23 P

PRESS RELEASE No 77/25 Luxembourg, 26 June 2025 Judgments of the Court in Joined Cases C-464/23 P, C-465/23 P, C-467/23 P, C-468/23 P and C-470/23 P | EVH and Others v Commission and in Cases C-466/23 P | Stadtwerke Hameln Weserbergland, C-469/23 P | eins energie in sachsen, C-484/23 P | Mainova and C-485/23 P | enercity v Commission The Court of Justice confirms, as previously done so by the General Court, the Commission’s approval of the acquisition of certain E.ON generation assets by RWE In March 2018, the German energy companies RWE and E.ON, which are active in several European countries, announced that they wanted to engage in a complex asset swap by means of three concentration operations. By the first concentration operation, RWE wished to acquire sole or joint control over certain generation assets of E.ON. The second concentration operation consisted in the acquisition by E.ON of the sole control over the distribution and retail energy business, as well as certain generation assets of Innogy, a subsidiary of RWE. As for the third concentration operation, it concerned the acquisition of 16.67% of E.ON’s shares by RWE. The first and second concentration operations were reviewed and authorised by the European Commission, 1 while the third concentration operation was reviewed and authorised by the Federal Competition Authority, Germany. Eleven German municipal authorities challenged the two Commission approval decisions before the General...