OCP S.A. is the parent company of OCP Group specialized in the exploitation, refining, manufacturing and sale of raw materials based on phosphates (phosphate rock and phosphoric acid), as well as products derived from phosphates (phosphate and calcium phosphate-based fertilizer). OCP Groups also produces and sells complex/mixed fertilizers containing phosphates. OCP Group has not been present on the Romanian market to date.
Al Dahra Group is present in Romania through the company Agricost S.A., whose core business is cereal farming (exclusively rice), leguminous plants and oilseed plants etc.
The newly established company will be a joint-stock company, organized and operational under the Romanian legal framework, and its core business will consist in selling chemical fertilizer.
The antitrust watchdog assessed the economic concentration operation in terms of its compatibility with the normal competitive environment and found it poses no significant obstacles in terms of actual competition on the Romanian market, or on a significant part of it.