Amendment by France of public service obligations imposed on scheduled air services between Montpellier and Ajaccio and Montpellier and Bastia (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2000-06-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, air transport, airline, inland transport, public service, transport planning

C 183/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

30.6.2000

Amendment by France of public service obligations imposed on scheduled air services between
Montpellier and Ajaccio and Montpellier and Bastia

(2000/C 183/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.

Pursuant to the decision of the Corsican regional auth-
orities of 28 April 2000, France has decided to amend,
from the date of publication of this notice, the public
service obligations imposed on scheduled air services
between Montpellier and Ajaccio, on the one hand, and
Montpellier and Bastia, on the other, as set out in notice C
288 published in the Official
the European
Communities C 288 of 16 September 1998, which were
suspended under the conditions set out in Commission
notice C 14 published in the Official
the
European Communities C 14 of 19 January 1999, pursuant
to Article 4(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92
of 23 July 1992 on access for Community air carriers to
intra-Community air routes (1).

Journal of

Journal of

(cid:151) the capacity provided must satisfy the following

conditions:

over and above the basic service, an additional
capacity of 12 000 seats (total capacity in both
directions) must be provided during the summer
season from the end of June to the beginning of
September, i.e. over a period of 10 weeks.

However,
during that season, up to 50 % of
capacity may be offered on flights to Calvi.

since Calvi airport complements Bastia
the additional

2.2. Fares

2. The amended public service obligations take account

of Corsica’s island status and are as follows:

The following categories of passengers must be charged a
fare not exceeding FRF 720 with no capacity restriction:

2.1. Minimum frequency, timetables, type of aircraft used

and capacity provided

(a) Between Montpellier and Ajaccio

(i) young persons (under 25 years of age);

(ii) senior citizens (aged 60 years or over);

(cid:151) frequency: at least one round trip per day in an

aircraft with at least 40 seats,

(iii) students under 27 years of age;

(cid:151) the services must be non-stop between Montpellier

one of their children who is a minor);

(iv) families (one or both parents travelling with at least

and Ajaccio,

(v) disabled persons;

(cid:151) the capacity provided must satisfy the following

conditions:

over and above the basic service, an additional
capacity of 12 000 seats (total capacity in both
directions) must be provided during the summer
season from the end of June to the beginning of
September, i.e. over a period of 10 weeks.

However, since Figari airport complements Ajaccio
during that season, up to 50 % of
the additional
capacity may be offered on flights to Figari.

(b) Between Montpellier and Bastia

(cid:151) frequency: at least one round trip per day in an

aircraft with at least 40 seats,

(cid:151) the services must be non-stop between Montpellier

and Bastia,

(1) OJ L 240, 24.8.1992, p. 8.

the purchase of tickets at these prices may be subject
to an advance booking requirement which may not
exceed 14 days before the departure date;

(vi) passengers whose principal place of residence is in
Corsica and who use tickets purchased in Corsica,
the validity of which is restricted to a stay outside
the island of less than 40 days, in order to make a
round trip starting from Corsica, on all
flights
without capacity restriction or time constraints on
ticket reservations or purchases.

These fares exclude per capacita taxes and duties charged
by the State, local authorities and airport authorities, and
identified as such on the air ticket.

If an abnormal and unforeseeable increase in the cost
factors affecting the operation of the routes takes place
for which the carriers are not responsible, that maximum
fare may be raised in proportion to the increase. The new
maximum fare must be notified to the carriers operating
the services and will apply within an appropriate period; it
will also be communicated forthwith to the European
Commission for publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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2.3. Continuity of service

(cid:151) except in cases of force majeure, the number of flights
cancelled for reasons directly attributable to the carrier
must not exceed 1 % of
flights
scheduled in any IATA scheduling season,

the number of

(cid:151) the carrier must give at least six months’ notice before

discontinuing these services,

(cid:151) Community carriers are hereby informed that

the
operation of air services without regard to the above-
in
mentioned public service obligations may result
administrative and/or criminal penalties.

(cid:151) in accordance with Article 4(1)(c) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2408/92, any carrier intending to operate one or
other of these services must undertake to do so for at
least 12 consecutive months,

Air carriers are hereby informed that the French auth-
to grant aid having a social
orities reserve the right
character to certain categories of passengers on these
routes on the basis of Article 87(2)(a) of the Treaty.

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.2020 (cid:151) Mets(cid:228) Serla/Modo)

(2000/C 183/06)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 22 June 2000, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97 (2),
by which the undertaking Mets(cid:228) Serla Corporation (Mets(cid:228) Scrla), belonging to the Mets(cid:228)liitto Group
(Finland), acquires, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Regulation, control of the whole of the
undertaking Modo Paper AB (Modo), jointly controlled by Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA and by
Holmen AB (Sweden), by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

(cid:151) Mets(cid:228) Serla: manufacturing and marketing of fine paper, paperboard, corrugated board, packaging raw

materials, chemical pulp and tissue paper,

(cid:151) Modo: manufacturing and marketing of fine paper, pulp and related products.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified concentration could fall within

3.
the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit

4.
proposed operation.

their possible observations on the

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication.
Observations can be sent by fax (No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post, under reference
COMP/M.2020 (cid:151) Mets(cid:228) Serla/Modo, to:

European Commission,
Directorate-General for Competition,
Directorate B (cid:151) Merger Task Force,
Rue Joseph II/Jozef II-straat 70,
B-1000 Brussels.

(1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.