Joint control: The French Competition Authority examines, for the first time, the hydrogen production and distribution markets (DMSE)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In recent days, the Competition Authority has posted 22 new merger clearance decisions online, including 19 simplified decisions. Among these decisions is the interesting decision no. 21-DCC-18 of 29 January 2021 in favour of which the Competition Authority cleared, without conditions, an operation consisting in extending the joint control previously exercised over a full-function joint venture (pts. 8-9), the company Dijon Métropole Smart Energhy (DMSE) by Dijon Métropole and the company Rougeot Energie Invest to a third company, Storengy, a subsidiary of Engie. Dijon Métropole Smart Energhy (DMSE) aims to develop a project relating to the construction,