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EN Official Journal of the European Union C 235/11

Communication from the Minister for Economic Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands pursuant to Article 3(2) of Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons

2010/C 235/05

The Minister for Economic Affairs hereby gives notice that an application has been received for authorisation to extract hydrocarbons in the area known as Akkrum 11, which lies in the province of Friesland and is bounded by the straight lines joining the points A-B, B-C, C-D, D-E and E-A. The coordinates of the points are as follows:

Point X Y A 205444,75 558988,28 B 208120,00 561040,00 C 209823,97 560049,72 D 208431,75 558470,58 E 206770,00 558366,60

The coordinates are expressed in accordance with the national triangulation system (RD).

On the basis of this description of the boundaries, the surface area is 6,38 km2.

With reference to the Directive mentioned in the introduction and Article 15 of the Mining Act (Mijnbouwwet) (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees (Staatsblad) 2002, No 542), the Minister for Economic Affairs hereby invites interested parties to submit a competing application for authorisation to extract hydrocarbons in the area bounded by the above-mentioned points and coordinates.

The Minister for Economic Affairs is the competent authority for the granting of authorisations. The criteria, conditions and requirements referred to in Articles 5(1), 5(2) and 6(2) of the above-mentioned Directive are set out in the Mining Act (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees 2002, No 542).

Applications may be submitted during the 13 weeks following the publication of this notice in the Official Journal of the European Union and should be sent to:

The Minister for Economic Affairs For the attention of J.C. De Groot, Director for the Energy Market ALP A/562 Bezuidenhoutseweg 30 Postbus 20101 2500 EC Den Haag NEDERLAND

Applications received after the expiry of this period will not be considered.

A decision on the applications will be taken not later than 12 months after this period has expired.

Further information can be obtained by calling E.J. HOPPEL on the following telephone number: +31 703797088.
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 343/13

Annual Report 2009

2010/C 343/07

The European Ombudsman has presented his Annual Report for the year 2009 to the European Parliament.

The Annual Report as well as a shorter version are available on the European Ombudsman's website in all 23 official languages at:

http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu

Paper copies of these publications can be requested free of charge from the European Ombudsman's office:
4.

The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that, in light of the commitments offered by Visa Europe, there are no longer grounds for action by the Commission against Visa Europe's immediate debit card MIFs, without prejudice to Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003.
2.

The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission on the proposed decision as regards immunity and the rejection of any reduction of the fines, based on the 2002 Leniency Notice.
8.

The Advisory Committee agrees that the readoption does not infringe basic principles, such as the non bis in idem principle or the principle that decisions are to be adopted in a reasonable time.
3.

The Advisory Committee recommends the publication of its opinion in the Official Journal of the European Union but asks the Commission to take account of the extremely confidential nature of the case in deciding on timing and content of publication of this Opinion.
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 344/7

Annual Report 2010

2011/C 344/04

The European Ombudsman has presented his Annual Report for the year 2010 to the European Parliament.

The Annual Report as well as a shorter version are available on the European Ombudsman's website in all 23 official languages at: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu

Paper copies of these publications can be requested free of charge from the European Ombudsman's office:
3.

The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission on the reductions of the fines based on the 2002 Leniency Notice.
3.

The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that, for the purpose of assessing the present operation, the definitions of the relevant product markets are: (a) separate markets for male deodorants and non-male deodorants; (b) market for bath and shower products, whereas a further distinction between bath products and shower products, and a distinction based on gender for shower products can be left open in this case; (c) market for soaps, whereas a further distinction between liquid and bar soaps can be left open in this case; (d) market for skin care products, whereas a further distinction between face, hand and body care products can be left open in this case; (e) market for detergents, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (f) market for fabric conditioners, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (g) market for shaving products, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (h) market for toothpaste, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (i) market for hair care products, whereas a further distinction between shampoos, conditioners/treatments and styling products can be left open in this case; (j) market for household cleaners, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case, including on a segmentation for multi-purpose cleaners.
3.

The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that, for the purpose of assessing the present operation, the definitions of the relevant product markets are: (a) the market for magazine paper, comprising all grades of coated mechanical reels (‘CMR’) machine finished coated ((‘MFC’) paper) and supercalendered paper (‘SC’), including SC-B equivalent paper, whereas it is not necessary to conclude whether the market should be defined more broadly as the market for magazine paper or more narrowly as a market for SC paper (including SC-B equivalent paper) in this case; (b) the market for newsprint, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (c) the market for acquisition of recovered paper, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (d) the market for wood procurement, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (e) the market for production of wood pulp, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (f) the market for generation and wholesale of electricity, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (g) the market for production of wood panels, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case; (h) the market for production of sawn timber, whereas it is not necessary to conclude on the exact product market definition in this case.
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 152/4

Notice of creditors' meeting of Landsbanki Íslands hf. pursuant to Directive 2001/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the reorganisation and winding-up of credit institutions

2012/C 152/04

CREDITORS’ MEETING

On Thursday, 31 May 2012, at 9.00, a meeting will be held with creditors in the winding-up proceedings of Landsbanki Íslands hf., Reg. No 540291-2259, at Hilton Hotel Nordica, Suðurlandsbraut 2, Reykjavík.

Meeting agenda:

1. meeting called to order, selection of chairman and secretary for the meeting;

2. status of the winding-up proceedings and presentation of the principal measures taken since the last creditors' meeting;

3. financials as of the end of Q1 2012;

4. disputes on claims lodged and other cases currently before the courts;

5. presentation of decisions by the Winding-up Board concerning partial payments which have been made to creditors, in accordance with the authorisation in the sixth paragraph of Article 102 of the Act on Financial Undertakings, No 161/2002, as subsequently amended;

6. creditors will have the opportunity to object to the Winding-up Board's decision on the exchange rate reference of partial payments as referred to in item 5 of the agenda. Should no such objections be submitted, the decision is considered final;

7. discussions and Q & A.

The meeting will be held in Icelandic with English interpretation available. Entitled to attend the meeting are those parties who have lodged claims against the bank which have not been finally rejected or parties to whom such claims have been lawfully assigned.
47.

The EDPS makes the following recommendations: — rephrasing Article 56 of the proposed regulation and inserting a provision in Directive 2006/43/EC emphasising the full applicability of existing data protection legislation and replacing the multiple references in different articles of the proposed regulation with one general provision referring to Directive 95/46/EC as well as Regulation (EC) No 45/2001. The EDPS suggests that the reference to Directive 95/46/EC be clarified by specifying that the provisions will apply in accordance with the national rules which implement Directive 95/46/EC, — specifying the kind of personal information that can be processed under Directive 2006/43/EC and the proposed regulation, to define the purposes for which personal data can be processed by the competent authorities concerned and fix a precise, necessary and proportionate data retention period for the above processing, — in view of the risks concerned regarding transfers of data to third countries, the EDPS recommends adding to Article 47 of Directive 2006/43/EC that in the absence of an adequate level of protection an assessment should take place on a case-by-case basis. He also recommends including a similar reference and the assessment on a case-by-case basis in the relevant provisions of the proposed regulation, — replacing the minimum retention period of five years in Article 30 of the proposed regulation with a maximum retention period. The chosen period should be necessary and proportionate for the purpose for which data are processed, — mentioning the purpose of the publication of sanctions in the articles concerned in Directive 2006/43/EC and in the proposed regulation and explaining the necessity and proportionality of the publication in the recitals of both Directive 2006/43/EC and the proposed regulation. He also recommends that publication should be decided on a case-by-case basis and that a possibility to publish less information than currently required should be catered for, — providing for adequate safeguards regarding mandatory publication of sanctions to ensure respect of the presumption of innocence, the right of the persons concerned to object, the security/accuracy of the data and their deletion after an adequate period of time, — adding a provision in Article 66(1) of the proposed regulation saying that: ‘The identity of these persons should be guaranteed at all stages of the procedure, unless its disclosure is required by national law in the context of further investigation or subsequent judicial proceedings.’, — removing the wording ‘the principles laid down’ from Article 66(1)(c) of the proposed regulation.
7.

The Advisory Committee agrees that in light of the commitments and without prejudice to Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 there are no longer grounds for action by the Commission against Apple, Hachette, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster and Holtzbrinck/Macmillan as regards the competition concerns identified in the draft decision.
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First, I found that the notifying party had not demonstrated that access to confidential sales data submitted by its competitors was indispensable for the exercise of its rights of defence. To justify its request, the notifying party had mostly put forward the risk that DG Competition may have made errors as regards the methodology underpinning the market reconstruction or as regards the handling, manipulation and analysis of the raw data itself (i.e. that errors may have been made in the process of transferring the raw data to the model). In respect of the methodology used in the market reconstruction, I noted that the notifying party had been granted access to the market reconstruction model itself, by way of a copy of the Excel file stripped from any business secrets but including all underlying formulae. I concluded that this placed the notifying party in a position to check and comment on the methodology of the analysis that had been conducted. In respect of the handling, manipulation and analysis of the data, I noted that the mere theoretical possibility of clerical errors could not, in and by itself, justify the disclosure of confidential information at the risk of undermining completely the special protection it is afforded under EU law. I nevertheless informed the notifying party that I could consider disclosure of the actual raw sales data in a restricted manner as provided in Article 8(4) of the terms of reference if there were concrete and credible indicia that DG Competition has made mistakes in the reconstruction exercise. No such indicia had been provided thus far (3).
1.

The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that the anticompetitive behaviour covered by the draft decision constitutes an agreement and/or concerted practice between undertakings within the meaning of Article 101 of the TFEU and Article 53 EEA in the case of each of the following infringements: (a) the Toyota infringement; (b) the Honda infringement; (c) the Nissan infringement; (d) the Renault I infringement; and (e) the Renault II infringement.
(10)

Third, in its request, the Notifying Party seemed to suggest that the Directorate-General for Competition had gone through the file in Case M.6214 generally and picked documents for its analysis in Case M.6203. Therefore, in application of the principle of equality of arms, the Notifying Party considered that it should similarly be able to review documents from Case M.6214 to search for exculpatory information. I investigated the matter with the Directorate-General for Competition and found no evidence that the Directorate-General for Competition had carried out a general review of the case file in Case M.6214 for the purpose of finding specific adverse evidence to be used in its assessment in Case M.6203. The only documents which had been resubmitted in Case M.6203 appeared to be broad recent strategic documents of the parties in Case M.6214 and market studies of independent consultants, both of the kind which the Commission normally requests from competitors in a merger investigation. In addition, such documents did not appear to be, by their nature, inherently more adverse or more favourable to the Notifying Party. In light of the above, I saw no reason to accept the Notifying Party's request to be given the opportunity to review documents in the file of Case M.6214, and accordingly rejected such request.
7.

The Advisory Committee agrees that in light of the commitments and without prejudice to Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 there are no longer grounds for action by the Commission against Penguin as regards the competition concerns identified in the draft decision.
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 36/3

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ON SOCIAL SECURITY FOR MIGRANT WORKERS

Rates for conversion of currencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 574/72

2014/C 36/04

Article 107(1), (2) and (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 574/72

Reference period: January 2014

Application period: April, May and June 2014

01-2014 EUR BGN CZK DKK HRK LTL HUF PLN 1 EUR = 1 1,95580 27,4851 7,46142 7,63533 3,45280 302,475 4,17990 1 BGN = 0,511300 1 14,0531 3,81502 3,90394 1,76542 154,655 2,13718 1 CZK = 0,0363834 0,0711586 1 0,271472 0,277799 0,125624 11,0051 0,152079 1 DKK = 0,134023 0,262122 3,68363 1 1,02331 0,462754 40,5385 0,560201 1 HRK = 0,130970 0,256151 3,59973 0,977224 1 0,452214 39,6152 0,547442 1 LTL = 0,289620 0,566439 7,96023 2,16098 2,21134 1 87,6028 1,21058 1 HUF = 0,00330606 0,00646599 0,0908673 0,0246679 0,0252428 0,0114152 1 0,0138190 1 PLN = 0,239240 0,467906 6,57554 1,78507 1,82668 0,826048 72,3642 1 1 RON = 0,221216 0,432655 6,08015 1,65059 1,68906 0,763816 66,9125 0,924663 1 SEK = 0,113200 0,221396 3,11131 0,844631 0,864317 0,390856 34,2401 0,473164 1 GBP = 1,20957 2,36567 33,2450 9,02508 9,23543 4,17639 365,863 5,05586 1 NOK = 0,119151 0,233036 3,27489 0,889039 0,909760 0,411406 36,0403 0,498041 1 ISK = 0,00633894 0,0123977 0,174226 0,0472975 0,0483999 0,0218871 1,91737 0,0264961 1 CHF = 0,811892 1,58790 22,3149 6,05787 6,19906 2,80330 245,577 3,39363





01-2014 RON SEK GBP NOK ISK CHF 1 EUR = 4,52046 8,83394 0,826743 8,39268 157,755 1,23169 1 BGN = 2,31131 4,51679 0,422714 4,29118 80,6601 0,629763 1 CZK = 0,164469 0,321408 0,0300797 0,305354 5,73966 0,0448131 1 DKK = 0,605844 1,18395 0,110802 1,12481 21,1428 0,165075 1 HRK = 0,592045 1,15698 0,108279 1,09919 20,6612 0,161315 1 LTL = 1,30922 2,55849 0,239441 2,43069 45,6890 0,356722 1 HUF = 0,0149449 0,0292055 0,00273326 0,0277467 0,521547 0,00407204 1 PLN = 1,08148 2,11343 0,197790 2,00787 37,7413 0,294670 1 RON = 1 1,95421 0,182889 1,85660 34,8980 0,272470 1 SEK = 0,511715 1 0,0935871 0,950050 17,8578 0,139427 1 GBP = 5,46779 10,6852 1 10,15150 190,815 1,48981 1 NOK = 0,538619 1,05258 0,0985076 1 18,7967 0,146758 1 ISK = 0,0286549 0,0559979 0,00524068 0,0532007 1 0,00780762 1 CHF = 3,67012 7,17221 0,671226 6,81395 128,080 1

Note: all cross rates involving ISK are calculated using ISK/EUR rate data from the Central Bank of Iceland

reference: Jan-14 1 EUR in national currency 1 unit of N.C. in EUR BGN 1,95580 0,511300 CZK 27,4851 0,0363834 DKK 7,46142 0,134023 HRK 7,63533 0,130970 LTL 3,45280 0,289620 HUF 302,475 0,00330606 PLN 4,17990 0,239240 RON 4,52046 0,221216 SEK 8,83394 0,113200 GBP 0,826743 1,20957 NOK 8,39268 0,119151 ISK 157,755 0,00633894 CHF 1,23169 0,811892

Note: ISK/EUR rates based on data from the Central Bank of Iceland

1. Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 determines that the rate for the conversion into a currency of amounts denominated in another currency shall be the rate calculated by the Commission and based on the monthly average, during the reference period specified in paragraph 2, of reference rates of exchange of currencies published by the European Central Bank.
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 10/8

Corrigendum to SESAR Joint Undertaking — Publication of the final accounts for the financial year 2013

( Official Journal of the European Union C 408 of 15 November 2014 )

(2015/C 10/08)

On page 38:

for:

‘http://www.acer.europa.eu/The_agency/Organisation/Administrative_Board/Pages/Opinions.aspx’,

read:
18.

On 21 January 2013, UPS sent me a request to reassess DG Competition’s refusals to grant it access to FedEx’ internal documents, in particular with regard to FedEx’ expansion plans, and to incorporate the alleged shortcomings as regards the extent and timing of the access to file in this Final Report. Having carried out the requested review, I cannot find that UPS’ rights to access the file were violated. Firstly as regards the extent of the access to file, UPS was granted the opportunity to see all the adverse evidence, including confidential information, concerning FedEx’ expansion plans, on which the SO and the Letter of Facts were based upon. Access was not limited to the 15 SIEC countries but was granted to summaries for all those EEA countries for which such plans exist. UPS also had access to all other FedEx’ submissions, except for the confidential information contained therein. Furthermore, as regards FedEx’ confidential information, UPS received justifications for the redactions and descriptions or summaries of the inaccessible parts. On this basis, I consider that the rules for access to file have been complied with. Secondly as regards the timing of the access to file, since UPS did not sufficiently substantiate its claim, I could not review it.
6.

The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission’s assessment that there is no need to come to a final decision on whether the proposed operation is likely to lead to a significant impediment of effective competition in the wholesale market for mobile network access and call origination in Ireland, since the commitments proposed by the Notifying Party in relation to the retail market will also address any potential concerns on the wholesale market. A minority disagrees.
19.

The EDPS is pleased to note that some account has been taken of data protection aspects in the proposals, and recommends a fuller integration of respect for the rights to privacy and the protection of personal data by means of the following changes: (a) the inclusion of a general provision for all processing of personal data pursuant to the proposed regulations to be subject to the rules laid down in Directive 95/46/EC and Regulation (EC) No 45/2001; (b) an appropriate maximum term in the proposal on transparency of SFTs for personal information to be retained by counterparties to an SFT; (c) regarding the provisions derogating from the obligation for confidentiality and professional secrecy in the proposal on transparency of SFTs: (i) clarification on whether or not personal data are within the scope of this derogation, and if so, the inclusion of a statement that those data may only be processed for compatible purposes and in accordance with applicable data protection rules; (ii) clarification whether personal data transfers to third countries are envisaged and if so, add a statement that such transfer may only take place in accordance with national provisions implementing Articles 25 and 26 of Directive 95/46/EC; (d) clarifying that the power to issue a public warning about identified individuals should not be exercised automatically but rather only on a case by case basis and where appropriate and proportionate; (e) regarding the provisions for publication of sanctions: (i) the inclusion of a requirement in both regulations to consider separately each case and its particular circumstances on the basis of necessity and proportionality prior to any decision to publish the identity of the person subject to a sanction; and (ii) specifying a maximum retention period for personal data published as part of information on sanction decisions on competent authorities' websites.
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 408/40

RESEARCH EXECUTIVE AGENCY

Publication of the final accounts for the financial year 2013

2014/C 408/40

The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address:

http://ec.europa.eu/rea/index_en.htm