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 prospecting, exploration and production of hydrocarbons (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2001-06-20
Institutions: France
Subjects: France, competition law, hydrocarbon, mineral prospecting, patents licence, petroleum exploration

C 175/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

20.6.2001

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 author-
isations for the prospecting, exploration and production of hydrocarbons (1)

(2001/C 175/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Notice regarding an application for an exclusive licence to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, designated the
(cid:145)Courtenay Licence(cid:146)

By request of 19 March 2001, Madison/Chart Energy SCS, a company with registered offices at 13/15
boulevard de la Madeleine, F-75001 Paris, applied for an exclusive four-year licence designated the
(cid:145)Courtenay Licence(cid:146), to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in an area of around 946 km2
covering part of the departments of Loiret and Yonne.

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:

Vertices

A

B

C

D

E

F

Longitude

0,60 degrees E

1,20 degrees E

1,20 degrees E

0,90 degrees E

0,90 degrees E

0,60 degrees E

The following concession perimeters are excluded from this licence:

Saint Firmin-des-Bois concession (16,136 km2):

Vertices

a

b

c

d

Ch(cid:226)teau-Renard concession (45,69 km2):

Vertices

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

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

Longitude

0,64 degrees E

0,67 degrees E

0,67 degrees E

0,64 degrees E

Longitude

0,67 degrees E

0,68 degrees E

0,68 degrees E

0,78 degrees E

0,78 degrees E

0,74 degrees E

0,74 degrees E

0,73 degrees E

0,73 degrees E

0,67 degrees E

Latitude

53,50 degrees N

53,50 degrees N

53,30 degrees N

53,30 degrees N

53,20 degrees N

53,20 degrees N

Latitude

53,35 degrees N

53,35 degrees N

53,27 degrees N

53,27 degrees N

Latitude

53,35 degrees N

53,35 degrees N

53,36 degrees N

53,36 degrees N

53,32 degrees N

53,32 degrees N

53,31 degrees N

53,31 degrees N

53,28 degrees N

53,28 degrees N

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EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 175/11

Interested companies may, within 90 days of the publication of this notice, submit a competing application
in accordance with the procedure summarised in the (cid:145)Notice regarding the granting of mining rights for
hydrocarbons in France(cid:146) published in the Official Journal of the European Communities C 374 of 30.12.1994,
p. 11, and established by Decree 95-427 of 19 April 1995 regarding mining rights (Journal officiel de la
RØpublique fran(cid:231)aise of 22 April 1995).

Competing applications will be accepted only for areas outside the perimeter requested by Vermilion Rep
SA in its application for the (cid:145)Saint ValØrien Licence(cid:146), in respect of which the deadline for competing
applications expired on 20 March 2001 (See notice published in Official Journal of the European Communities
C 368, 21.12.2000, p. 2).

Additional
information can be obtained from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry
(secrØtariat d’(cid:201)tat (cid:224) l’industrie, direction gØnØrale de l’Ønergie et des matiŁres premiŁres, direction des
matiŁres premiŁres et des hydrocarbures, service de conservation des gisements d’hydrocarbures), 120
rue du Cherche-Midi, F-75353 Paris 07 SP (tel. (33) 143 19 53 53, fax (33) 143 19 54 54).

UNIFORM APPLICATION OF THE COMBINED NOMENCLATURE (CN)

(Classification of goods)

(2001/C 175/06)

Explanatory notes adopted in accordance with Article 10(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July
1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2559/2000 (2)

The explanatory notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Communities (3) are amended as
follows:

On page 318 the following text is inserted:

(cid:145)8528 30 05

this subheading also includes
Besides apparatus operating by means of
apparatus operating by means of digital light processing technology. It works by means of a semiconductor
controlled mechanical micro-mirror device.(cid:146)

liquid crystal device (LCD),

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 293, 22.11.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ C 199, 13.7.2000, p. 1.