# Official Journal C 118/2022

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| English edition | Information and Notices | Volume 6514 March 2022 |

ISSN 1977-091X

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 118

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 6514 March 2022

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| | II   Information |
| | INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES |
| | European Commission |
| 2022/C 118/01 | Communication from the commission – Commission Notice on recommendations per Member State and region on the 2018 updated reports for Articles 8, 9 and 10 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC) | 1 |
| 2022/C 118/02 | Commission Communication | 4 |
| 2022/C 118/03 | Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10566 – P66 / H2 EE / JV) (
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  ) | 5 |

Contents

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II   Information

INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

European Commission

2022/C 118/01

Communication from the commission – Commission Notice on recommendations per Member State and region on the 2018 updated reports for Articles 8, 9 and 10 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC)

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2022/C 118/02

Commission Communication

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2022/C 118/03

Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10566 – P66 / H2 EE / JV) (
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| | NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES |
| | European Commission |
| 2022/C 118/04 | Euro exchange rates — 11 March 2022 | 6 |

IV   Notices

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

European Commission

2022/C 118/04

Euro exchange rates — 11 March 2022

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INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

European Commission

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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION

Commission Notice on recommendations per Member State and region on the 2018 updated reports for Articles 8, 9 and 10 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC)

(2022/C 118/01)

1.   INTRODUCTION

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008/56/EC) (1) is a holistic policy to protect the marine environment of the seas around Europe while enabling the sustainable use of marine goods and services. It requires Member States to assess the quality status of the marine environment, determine good environmental status, set appropriate environmental targets and draw up adequate monitoring programmes and implement measures to achieve the Directive’s key goal of securing the ‘good environmental status’ of all EU marine waters by 2020. This goal was not achieved in all EU waters across all the descriptors of the Directive (2).

During the second implementation cycle of the Directive, Member States were due to notify to the Commission by 15 October 2018 their updated reports for Articles 8, 9 and 10 of the Directive (3). The Commission has to assess these Member State reports in accordance with Articles 12 and 17(4) of the Directive.

Member States may provide text-based reports, structured according to national needs, to fulfil their legal obligation to report under the MSFD. Through the MSFD Common Implementation Strategy, Member States also agreed to provide e-reports with structured information that is suitable for the purposes of Article 12 assessments and for dissemination at European level via WISE Marine (4).

Out of the 23 Member States that have marine waters (5), and therefore need to report under Article 17, 22 had provided text reports by September 2020. Member States who had not reported by the October 2018 deadline were periodically reminded of their reporting obligation at meetings of the MSFD Common Implementation Strategy. Infringement cases for non-reporting were opened against Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom (6). All cases have been closed, following receipt of the reports, excepting for Bulgaria whose reports have not been received as of November 2021.

By October 2020, 20 Member States had provided e-reports, and have therefore been included in this Article 12 assessment. In addition to communications via the MSFD Common Implementation Strategy, there has been direct communication with Bulgaria and Greece requesting submission of e-reports (7). The late e-reporting by Member States has consequently led to the delay in undertaking this Article 12 assessment.

The assessment has led to a national report per Member State (8) and to a regional report on coherence for three (9) of the four MSFD marine regions (Baltic Sea, North-East Atlantic Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea) (10).

In addition, the assessment has led to a set of recommendations per Member State and per region (which are generally applicable to all Member States in those regions). The recommendations aim to identify the ways in which the reports for Articles 8, 9 and 10 should be improved when next updated in October 2024.

In parallel to the analysis of Member State’s reports for this MSFD Article 12 assessment, which provide feedback on reporting per Member State, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) analysed the reports from a scientific and technical perspective. This resulted in a series of 11 technical reports that provide a European overview to support the MSFD implementation process (11).

This notice, with its accompanying staff working document (12), presents the recommendations for all countries and regions assessed so far. They are expressed in relation to the three articles (8, 9 and 10) that have been reported on, and in relation to the descriptors identified in Annex I of the MSFD and the criteria identified in Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848.

The accompanying staff working document (13) to this notice contains the specific national and regional recommendations for all countries and regions assessed so far.

2.   NATIONAL AND REGIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

| Article | Topics | No. of recommendations |
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| Article 8 | — | Features and elements assessed |

Article

Topics

No. of recommendations

Article 8

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Features and elements assessed

| — | Assessment methodology |
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Assessment methodology

| — | Extent to which GES is achieved |
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Extent to which GES is achieved

| — | Key pressures preventing GES |
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Key pressures preventing GES

| — | Consistency of current assessment against the 2018 GES Determination |
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Consistency of current assessment against the 2018 GES Determination

National - 5

| — | Coherent set of elements |
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Coherent set of elements

| — | Coherent assessment methodology |
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Coherent assessment methodology

Regional - 4

Article 9

| — | Use of primary criteria |
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Use of primary criteria

| — | Use of secondary criteria |
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Use of secondary criteria

| — | Qualitative GES description |
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Qualitative GES description

| — | Quantitative GES determination |
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Quantitative GES determination

National - 7

| — | Coherent use of primary criteria |
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Coherent use of primary criteria

| — | Coherent qualitative GES description |
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Coherent qualitative GES description

| — | Coherent quantitative GES determination |
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Coherent quantitative GES determination

Regional - 7

Article 10

| — | Targets for key pressures |
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Targets for key pressures

| — | Measurable targets |
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Measurable targets

| — | Assess progress with targets |
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Assess progress with targets

| — | Quantify gap to GES |
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Quantify gap to GES

| — | Link target to direct measures |
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Link target to direct measures

National - 5

| — | Key pressures in (sub)region |
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Key pressures in (sub)region

Regional - 1

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3.   CONCLUSION

The consideration of these recommendations by Member States, in particular where additional harmonisation and coherent reporting is required, will need further collaboration among Member States at a technical level in the context of the MSFD Common Implementation Strategy (14), such as in the MSFD Technical Groups and Joint Research Centre’s Expert Networks.

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(1)  Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) (OJ L 164, 25.6.2008, p. 19).

(2)  COM/2020/259 final

(3)  In accordance with Article 17(2)(a) and 17(2(b)

(4)  GD14: guidance for 2018 reporting on Art. 8, 9 & 10 updates; Annex 2 worked examples.

(5)  Marine waters are defined in MSFD Article 3(1). Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Luxembourg, and Slovakia are land-locked countries and do not report under Article 17.

(6)  The United Kingdom was still an EU Member State at the time of the reporting obligation in 2018, but had not completed its e-reporting in time for this assessment.

(7)  The remaining two Member States (Bulgaria, Greece) will be assessed when their e-reports become available.

(8)  The technical country-specific assessments were prepared for the Commission by an external consultant – see https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/326ae5ac-0419-4167-83ca-e3c210534a69/library/31bf127a-ca1f-483e-a34e-e0243754ef81?p=1&n=10&sort=modified_DESC.

(9)  The fourth marine region, the Black Sea, has only two Member States (Bulgaria and Romania) and cannot be assessed for coherence until Bulgaria provides its e-reports.

(10)  The technical region-specific assessments were prepared for the Commission by an external consultant – see https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/326ae5ac-0419-4167-83ca-e3c210534a69/library/31bf127a-ca1f-483e-a34e-e0243754ef81?p=1&n=10&sort=modified_DESC.

(11)  9 JRC reviews: https://mcc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/main/dev.py?N=18&O=460.

(12)  SWD(2022)55

(13)  SWD(2022)55

(14)  The common implementation strategy is an informal coordination programme set up by the Commission, with the participation of Member States, regional sea conventions and other stakeholders.

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Commission Communication

(2022/C 118/02)

The European Capitals of Culture 2026 are Oulu (Finland) and Trenčín (Slovakia).

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Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case M.10566 – P66 / H2 EE / JV)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2022/C 118/03)

On 4 March 2022, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:

| — | in the merger section of the ‘Competition policy’ website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes, |
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in the merger section of the ‘Competition policy’ website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,

| — | in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32022M10566. EUR-Lex is the online point of access to European Union law. |
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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32022M10566. EUR-Lex is the online point of access to European Union law.

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

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Euro exchange rates (1)

11 March 2022

(2022/C 118/04)

1 euro =

| | Currency | Exchange rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| USD | US dollar | 1,0990 |
| JPY | Japanese yen | 128,46 |
| DKK | Danish krone | 7,4402 |
| GBP | Pound sterling | 0,83970 |
| SEK | Swedish krona | 10,6460 |
| CHF | Swiss franc | 1,0230 |
| ISK | Iceland króna | 144,90 |
| NOK | Norwegian krone | 9,8033 |
| BGN | Bulgarian lev | 1,9558 |
| CZK | Czech koruna | 25,213 |
| HUF | Hungarian forint | 380,92 |
| PLN | Polish zloty | 4,7820 |
| RON | Romanian leu | 4,9490 |
| TRY | Turkish lira | 16,2554 |
| AUD | Australian dollar | 1,5017 |
| CAD | Canadian dollar | 1,4024 |
| HKD | Hong Kong dollar | 8,6007 |
| NZD | New Zealand dollar | 1,6053 |
| SGD | Singapore dollar | 1,4949 |
| KRW | South Korean won | 1 354,04 |
| ZAR | South African rand | 16,4896 |
| CNY | Chinese yuan renminbi | 6,9633 |
| HRK | Croatian kuna | 7,5713 |
| IDR | Indonesian rupiah | 15 696,64 |
| MYR | Malaysian ringgit | 4,6098 |
| PHP | Philippine peso | 57,461 |
| RUB | Russian rouble | |
| THB | Thai baht | 36,542 |
| BRL | Brazilian real | 5,5077 |
| MXN | Mexican peso | 22,9524 |
| INR | Indian rupee | 83,9875 |

Currency

Exchange rate

USD

US dollar

1,0990

JPY

Japanese yen

128,46

DKK

Danish krone

7,4402

GBP

Pound sterling

0,83970

SEK

Swedish krona

10,6460

CHF

Swiss franc

1,0230

ISK

Iceland króna

144,90

NOK

Norwegian krone

9,8033

BGN

Bulgarian lev

1,9558

CZK

Czech koruna

25,213

HUF

Hungarian forint

380,92

PLN

Polish zloty

4,7820

RON

Romanian leu

4,9490

TRY

Turkish lira

16,2554

AUD

Australian dollar

1,5017

CAD

Canadian dollar

1,4024

HKD

Hong Kong dollar

8,6007

NZD

New Zealand dollar

1,6053

SGD

Singapore dollar

1,4949

KRW

South Korean won

1 354,04

ZAR

South African rand

16,4896

CNY

Chinese yuan renminbi

6,9633

HRK

Croatian kuna

7,5713

IDR

Indonesian rupiah

15 696,64

MYR

Malaysian ringgit

4,6098

PHP

Philippine peso

57,461

RUB

Russian rouble

THB

Thai baht

36,542

BRL

Brazilian real

5,5077

MXN

Mexican peso

22,9524

INR

Indian rupee

83,9875

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(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.

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