Article 2
This Decision is addressed to: TotalFina F - 92069 Paris La Défense Cedes Done at Brussels, 9 February 2000. For the Commission Mario Monti Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 1 (Corrigenda: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13). (2) OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1 (Corrigenda: OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17). (3) OJ C 154, 29.5.2001. (4) Turnover calculated in accordance with Article 5(1) of the Merger Control Regulation and the Commission notice on the calculation of turnover (OJ C 66, 2.3.1999, p. 25). Figures for turnover prior to 1 January 1999 are calculated on the basis of average exchange rates for the ecu and converted into euro at a one-to-one parity. (5) Parts of this text have been edited to ensure that confidential information is not disclosed; those parts are enclosed in square brackets. (6) The southern region consists of the following departments: 04/05/06/13/83/84/11/30/34/48/66/09/12/31/32/46/65/81/82/2A/2B. (7) The eastern region consists of the following departments: 08/10/51/52/54/55/57/88/67/68. (8) The northern region consists of the following departments: 02/60/80/59/62. (9) The Normandy-Paris region consists of the following departments: 14/50/61/27/76/75/77/78/91/92/93/94/95. (10) The west-centre region consists of the following departments: 22/23/24/29/40/47/35/64/19/23/87/56/16/17/79/86/18/28/36/37/41/45/44/49/53/72/85. (11) The Rhône/Burgundy region consists of the following departments: 21/58/71/89/25/39/70/90/01/07/26/38/42/69/73/74/03/15/43/63. (12) The connection of the other Strasbourg depots to the southern ODC pipeline seems technically possible but would be dependent on TotalFina granting a right of way over land which it owns. (13) Delivered on 28 September 1993. (14) NB: TotalFina/Elf's market shares for DHO are underestimated as they do not include the percentage sold by Elf its subsidiaries. (15) In 1998 France imported 23 million tonnes of refined products, including 2 million tonnes of petrol and 11 million tonnes of diesel. (16) The depots at Lorient and Port-la-Nouvelle although affording access to large-tonnage vessels, are not connected to any means of bulk transport, so they can trade only within a radius of 100 to 150 kilometres. The Shell Pauillac depot depends on DPA for bulk transport, being both without any lorry or rolling stock loading facilities and unconnected to a pipeline (other than the connection with DPA Bassens). (17) The level of imports might increase in the years to come, for example because of increasingly stringent product quality specifications, some domestic refiners having temporary difficulty producing the new quality (lower aromatic, benzene and sulphur contents). (18) The distribution of pipeline shares is based on market shares from the 1950s. (19) Data on traffic at the two airports (1998): Toulouse: passengers: 4800000; freight: 46000 tonnes; movements: 97000; destinations: 25 % of traffic outside France. Lyon: passengers: 5221221; freight: 40000 tonnes; movements: 108355; destinations: 38 % of traffic outside France. (20) Council Directive 96/67/EC of 15 October 1996 on access to the groundhandling market at Community airports, OJ L 272, 25.10.1996, p. 32. (21) The distribution network for natural gas in France covers 6705 municipalities out of approximately 36000. Gaz de France anticipates the connection of 400 additional municipalities per year for the next three years. (22) This analysis did not include natural gas, since it could reasonably be a substitute for LPG (as it is cheaper), provided that the customer can be connected to the gas network, as mentioned above. (23) LPG producers have recently developed a 6 kg bottle (the traditional bottles were 13 kg) in order to give bottle use a new boost. The new bottle is lighter and thus simpler to buy, transport and install. (24) Extracts from the article in the daily Le Monde: "[GdF] must simultaneously develop both upstream, by participating in the development of oil and gas reserves, and downstream, to meet customers' requirements. The principle of opening the capital to TotalFina/Elf and EdF (Le Monde, 29 October) is being adopted with this in mind (...) By taking over Elf, TotalFina, like its main competitors, would gain an important hold over gas distribution. Elf has a pipeline network in the south-west, centred on the Lacq deposit. The new group is de facto becoming an essential partner for GdF." (25) Cases IV/M. 708 - Exxon/DSM, IV/M.361 - Nesté/Statoil, IV/M. 550 Union Carbide/Enichem. (26) [...].