do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Opinion of the Advisory Committee on Concentrations given at the 66th meeting on 25 August 1999 concerning a preliminary draft decision relating to Case IV/M.1532 — BP Amoco/Atlantic Richfield (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-08-25
Institutions: Advisory Committee on Restrictive Practices and Dominant Positions
Subjects: North Sea, advisory committee (EU), competition, economic concentration, gas pipeline, merger control

C 17/24

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

19.1.2001

Opinion of the Advisory Committee on Concentrations given at the 66th meeting on 25 August
1999 concerning a preliminary draft decision relating to Case IV/M.1532 (cid:151) BP Amoco/Atlantic
Richfield

(2001/C 17/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1. The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that the notified operation constitutes a concen-
tration within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation and has a Community dimension
as defined by Article 1(2) of the Regulation.

2. The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission’s definition of the relevant product markets and

with the definition of the relevant geographic markets.

3. (a) The Advisory Committee does not agree with the views of the Commission expressed in the draft
decision that the concentration might lead to the creation of a dominant position as a result of
which effective competition would be significantly impeded on the northern North Sea gas pipelines
market;

(b) The majority of the Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that the concentration will
create a dominant position as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded
on the southern North Sea gas pipelines market. A minority disagrees;

(c) The majority of the Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that the concentration will
create a dominant position as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded
on the southern North Sea gas processing market. A minority disagrees.

4. The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that the commitments proposed by BP Amoco
the notified concentration. The Advisory Committee

would remove the competitive concerns of
considers that no commitments are necessary for the northern North Sea gas pipelines market.

5. The Advisory Committee agrees with the Commission that, subject

to full compliance with the
submitted commitments relating to the southern North Sea gas pipelines market and southern North
Sea gas processing market, the notified operation is compatible with the common market.

6. The Advisory Committee asks the Commission to take account of the other points raised during the

discussion of this case.

7. The Advisory Committee recommends the publication of its opinion in the Official Journal of

the

European Communities.
Information relating to the entry into force of the Protocol for the adaptation of trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Lithuania, of the other part, to take into account the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the results of the agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay Round, including the improvements of the existing preferential regime
Date: 1999-08-25
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Austria, European Association Agreement, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, accession to the European Union, agricultural product, protocol to an agreement, revision of an agreement, tariff preference

25. 8. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 224/9

II

(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

Information relating to the entry into force of the Protocol for the adaptation of trade aspects of
the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part, and the Republic of Lithuania, of the other part, to take into account the accession of the
Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union
and the results of the agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay Round, including the improvements
of the existing preferential regime

The Protocol for the adaptation of the Europe Agreement with the Republic of Lithuania further to
enlargement and the Uruguay Round, which the Council decided to conclude on 18 May 1998 (1), enters
into force on 1 September 1999 since notification of the accomplishment of the procedures stipulated in
Article 7 of that Protocol was completed on 16 July 1999.

(1) OJ L 321, 30.11.1998.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1838/1999 of 25 August 1999 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 1999-08-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

26. 8. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 225/1

I

(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1838/1999

of 25 August 1999

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(2) Whereas,

in compliance with the above criteria, the
standard import values must be fixed at the levels set
out in the Annex to this Regulation,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the
last
import arrangements
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1498/98 (2), and in particular
Article 4 (1) thereof,

fruit and vegetables (1), as

for

(1) Whereas Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down,
pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multi-
the criteria whereby the
lateral
Commission fixes the standard values for imports from
third countries, in respect of the products and periods
stipulated in the Annex thereto;

trade negotiations,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 August 1999.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 August 1999.

For the Commission

Karel VAN MIERT

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66.
(2) OJ L 198, 15.7.1998, p. 4.

L 225/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

26. 8. 1999

to the Commission Regulation of 25 August 1999 establishing the standard import values for determining the
entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0709 90 70

0805 30 10

0806 10 10

0808 10 20, 0808 10 50, 0808 10 90

0808 20 50

0809 30 10, 0809 30 90

0809 40 05

Third country
code (1)

Standard import
value

(EUR/100 kg)

052
999
388
524
528
999
052
064
400
600
624
999
388
400
508
512
524
528
800
804
999
052
064
388
999
052
068
999
052
064
066
068
999

42,2
42,2
63,7
67,1
59,7
63,5
88,3
65,0
232,3
83,6
86,9
111,2
60,3
56,7
81,8
32,5
63,4
26,0
76,0
74,3
58,9
88,0
46,2
71,5
68,6
105,0
46,0
75,5
34,2
46,6
45,0
46,6
43,1

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2645/98 (OJ L 335, 10.12.1998, p. 22). Code ‘999’ stands for ‘of

other origin’.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1839/1999 of 25 August 1999 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar for the 4th partial invitation to tender issued within the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1489/1999
Date: 1999-08-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, white sugar

26. 8. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 225/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1839/1999

of 25 August 1999

fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar for the 4th partial invitation to tender issued
within the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No
1489/1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30
June 1981 on the common organisation of the markets in the
sugar sector (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph
of Article 17(5) (b) thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1489/1999 of
7 July 1999 on a standing invitation to tender to deter-
mine levies and/or refunds on exports of white sugar (3),
requires partial invitations to tender to be issued for the
export of this sugar;

(2) Whereas, pursuant to Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1489/1999 a maximum export refund shall be fixed, as
the case may be, account being taken in particular of the
state and foreseeable development of the Community
and world markets in sugar, for the partial invitation to
tender in question;

(3) Whereas,

following an examination of
the tenders
invitation to
submitted in response to the 4th partial
tender, the provisions set out in Article 1 should be
adopted;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Sugar,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 4th partial invitation to tender for white sugar issued
pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1489/1999 the maximum
amount of the export refund is fixed at 53,488 EUR/100 kg.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 August 1999.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 August 1999.

For the Commission

Karel VAN MIERT

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 172, 8.7.1999, p. 27.