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 to prospect for, exploit and extract hydrocarbons (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-07-30
Institutions: France
Subjects: France, energy site, exploitation of resources, hydrocarbon

30.7.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 181/13

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 to prospect for, exploit and extract hydrocarbons (1)

(2002/C 181/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Notice regarding an application for an exclusive licence to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, designated
the ‘Parentis Maritime Licence’

By request of 13 June 2002, Hunt Overseas Oil Company, with registered offices af 1445 Ross at Field,
Dallas, Texas 75202-2785 (United States) applied for an exclusive five-year licence, designated the ‘Parentis
Maritime’ licence, to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in an 8 110 km2 area of seabed off
the departments of Gironde and the Landes.

The perimeter of the area covered by this license 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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

5,70° O (002 47 34 W)

50,20° N (045 10 48 N)

4,70° O (001 53 34 W)

50,20° N (045 10 48 N)

4,70° O (001 53 34 W)

50,00° N (045 00 00 N)

5,10° O (002 15 10 W)

50,00° N (045 00 00 N)

5,10° O (002 15 10 W)

49,80° N (044 49 12 N)

5,00° O (002 09 46 W)

49,80° N (044 49 12 N)

5,00° O (002 09 46 W)

49,50° N (044 33 00 N)

4,40° O (001 37 22 W)

49,50° N (044 33 00 N)

4,40° O (001 37 22 W)

49,60° N (044 38 24 N)

4,50° O (001 42 46 W)

49,60° N (044 38 24 N)

4,50° O (001 42 46 W)

49,70° N (044 43 48 N)

4,20° O (001 26 34 W)

49,70° N (044 43 48 N)

4,20° O (001 26 34 W)

49,60° N (044 38 24 N)

4,10° O (001 21 10 W)

49,60° N (044 38 24 N)

4,10° O (001 21 10 W)

49,50° N (044 33 00 N)

Vertex 16 = Intersectrion of parallel 49,50° N (044 33 00 N) and the Atlantic shore.

Vertex 17 = Intersection of parallel 49,00° N (044 06 00 N) and the Atlantic shore.

Vertex 18 = Intersection of parallel 49,00° N (044 06 00 N) and the dividing line between the French and
Spanish continental shelves.

Vertex 19 = Intersection of parallel 49,50° N (044 33 00 N) and the dividing line between the French and
Spanish continental shelves.

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

C 181/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

30.7.2002

Vertices

20

21

22

Longitude

Latitude

5,40° O (002 31 22 W)

5,40° O (002 31 22 W)

5,70° O (002 47 34 W)

49,50° N (044 33 00 N)

50,00° N (045 00 00 N)

50,00° N (045 00 00 N)

16 to 17 = Atlantic shore.

18 to 19 = Dividing line between the French and Spanish continental shelves.

Interested companies may, within 90 days of
this notice, submit a competing
application in accordance with the procedure summarised in the ‘Notice regading 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).

the publication of

Further information can be obtained from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry
(direction générale de l'énergie et des matières premières, Direction des ressources énergétiques et
minérales, bureau de la législation minière), 61, Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Télédoc 133, F-75703 Paris
Cedex 13, (tel. (33-1) 44 97 09 06, fax (33-1) 44 97 05 70).

Communication from the Commission amending the communication relating to the characteristics
of products to be supplied as Community food aid

Communication 2000/C 312/01 relating to the characteristics of products to be supplied as Community
food aid (1), as amended by Communication 2001/C 174/03 (2), is amended as follows:

(2002/C 181/09)

1. Part A is amended as follows:

(a)

In points 1, 2, 3 and 5, the first subindent of the second indent is replaced by the following:

‘— broken grains: maximum 3 %,’

(b) In point 10, the sixth indent is replaced by the following:

‘— fatty acidity: maximum 120 mg KOH/100 mg of dry matter’.

2. In Part B, point 4, the second indent is replaced by the following:

‘— bean size: minimum 7,5 mm (measured with a sieve of circular mesh),’.

(1) OJ C 312, 31.10.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 174, 19.6.2001, p. 3.