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I Information

Commission

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Euro exchange rates (1)

27 September 2005

(2005/C 238/01)

1 euro= 

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(1)

Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.

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Imposition by Finland of a public service obligation relating to the scheduled air service on the Helsinki — Mikkeli — Savonlinna route

(2005/C 238/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Passenger numbers: general information

Table 1.Number of passengers between Savonlinna and Helsinki, 2001-2003

Table 2. Number of passengers between Mikkeli and Helsinki, 2001-2003

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Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.3964 — Berkshire Hathaway/MEHC)

Candidate case for simplified procedure

(2005/C 238/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

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(1)OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.

(2)OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.

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III Notices

European Food Safety Authority

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Call for scientific data related to legally used growth promoting hormones in bovines (EFSA-Q-2005-048)

Deadline for submissions: 4 November 2005

(2005/C 238/04)

1.   Background

Directive 96/22/EC (1) as amended by Directive 2003/74/EC (2) restricts the use of hormones in food producing animals. These restrictions are based on risk assessments carried out by the Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to Public Health (SCVPH) which gave advice to the European Commission (DG Health and Consumer Protection) in 1999, 2000 and 2002.

Recently, EFSA was asked by the European Commission to perform a review of scientific data on potential risks to human health from hormone residues in bovine meat and meat products (EFSA-Q-2005-048) which has become available since the latest opinion by the SCVPH in 2002.

Within EFSA this task was assigned to the Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM).

2.   Call for scientific data

EFSA invites all interested parties (3) to submit any scientific evidence (from 2002 onwards) on substances with hormonal activity which may be used legally in Third Countries for growth promotion purposes in bovine meat having oestrogenic, androgenic or gestagenic action since the last review of the Assessment of Potential Risks to Human Health from Hormone Residues in Bovine Meat and Meat Products of the SCVPH in 2002 (4) following the criteria outlined under item 3.

3.   General conditions for data submissions

To facilitate an effective handling of incoming documents, interested parties are requested to submit documents to the following email address: bovine-hormone.data@efsa.eu.int (5).

The acceptance of the scientific contributions will be based on the compliance with the general EFSA criteria for acceptance of scientific documents and data for risk assessment purposes as indicated below. Non-compliance with these general quality criteria will result in the rejection of the contribution provided.

4.   Copyright

As a matter of principle, the owner of the copyright of scientific contributions will authorise EFSA to reproduce, distribute or communicate these scientific contributions. Refusals to grant EFSA such authorisation should be considered unacceptable unless in exceptional cases they are duly justified. In all cases EFSA will acknowledge the source.

If the submission of the scientific contribution includes documents of which the copyright is not owned by the submitting party, the contribution should be accompany by the authorisation of the copyright owner to allow reproduction, distribution or communication of the documents.

5.   Confidentiality

The documents shall normally not include confidential information. The inclusion of confidential data should be duly justified and should be considered by EFSA on a case-by-case basis. The contributor should take duly into account the rights of interested parties.

6.   Language regime

Given the short deadlines, the need to harmonise the documents and the potential large number of documents to be received, processing would be greatly facilitated if documents are submitted in English.

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(1)OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 3-9.

(2)OJ L 262, 14.10.2003, p. 17-21.

(3)  Such as industry, academics, consumer organisations, governmental institutions as well as EU Member States and the EU Parliament.

(4)  http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scv/out50_en.pdf

(5)  In case postal submissions are necessary following address should be used:

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