EN Official Journal of the European Union C 103/14

Communication from the French Government concerning Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 1994 on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons (1)

(Notice regarding an application for an exclusive licence to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, designated the ‘Carret Licence’)

(2005/C 103/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

By request of 17 November 2004, Esso Rep, a company with registered offices at 2, rue des Martinets, Rueil Malmaison, 92500 (France), and Lundin Gascogne SNC, a company with registered offices at Maclaunay, Montmirail, 515210 (France), applied jointly and severally for an exclusive four-year licence to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in an area of approximately 173 km2, designated the ‘Carret Licence’, covering part of the department of the Gironde, part of the seabed off that department and an area of sea off the same department.

The perimeter of the area covered by this licence is made up of the meridian and parallel arcs successively joining the vertices defined below by their geographical coordinates, the original meridian being that of Paris (the Greenwich coordinates are given for information):

Vertices Longitude Latitude A 4.00° W (1° 15′ 46″ W) 49.80° N (44° 49′ 12″ N) B 3.90° W (1° 10′ 22″ W) 49.80° N (44° 49′ 12″ N) C 3.90° W (1° 10′ 22″ W) 49.70° N (44° 43′ 48″ N) D 3.80° W (1° 04′ 58″ W) 49.70° N (44° 43′ 48″ N) E 3.80° W (1° 04′ 58″ W) 49.60° N (44° 38′ 24″ N) F 3.88° W (1° 09′ 15″ W) 49.60° N (44° 38′ 24″ N) G 3.88° W (1° 09′ 15″ W) 49.62° N (44° 39′ 32″ N) H 3.89° W (1° 09′ 47″ W) 49.62° N (44° 39′ 32″ N) I 3.89° W (1° 09′ 47″ W) 49.63° N (44° 40′ 05″ N) J 3.92° W (1° 11′ 25″ W) 49.63° N (44° 40′ 05″ N) K 3.92° W (1° 11′ 25″ W) 49.66° N (44° 41′ 42″ N) L 3.93° W (1° 11′ 57″ W) 49.66° N (44° 41′ 42″ N) M 3.93° W (1° 11′ 57″ W) 49.68° N (44° 42′ 47″ N) N 3.98° W (1° 14′ 39″ W) 49.68° N (44° 42′ 47″ N) O 3.98° W (1° 14′ 39″ W) 49.66° N (44° 41′ 42″ N) P 3.99° W (1° 15′ 12″ W) 49.66° N (44° 41′ 42″ N) Q 3.99° W (1° 15′ 12″ W) 49.63° N (44° 40′ 05″ N) R 3.97° W (1° 14′ 08″ W) 49.63° N (44° 40′ 05″ N) S 3.97° W (1° 14′ 08″ W) 49.60° N (44° 38′ 24″ N) T 4.00° W (1° 15′ 46″ W) 49.60° N (44° 38′ 24″ N)

Interested companies may, within ninety days of the publication of this notice, submit a competing application in accordance with the procedure summarised in the ‘Notice regarding the granting of mining rights for hydrocarbons in France’ published in Official Journal of the European Communities C 374 of 30 December 1994, page 11, and established by Decree 95-427 of 19 April 1995 regarding mining rights (Journal officiel de la République française of 22 April 1995).

Further information can be obtained from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry (Directorate-General for Energy and Raw Materials, Directorate for Energy and Mineral Resources, Bureau of Mining Legislation), 61, Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Télédoc 133, F-75703 Paris Cedex 13, France, (tel. (33) 144 97 23 02; fax (33) 144 97 05 70).

(1) OJ L 164, 30.6.1994, p. 3.