do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2003-08-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

9.8.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 189/1

I

(Information)

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

8 August 2003

(2003/C 189/01)

1 euro =

USD

JPY

DKK

GBP

SEK

CHF

ISK

NOK

BGN

CYP

CZK

EEK

HUF

LTL

Currency

US dollar

Japanese yen

Danish krone

Pound sterling

Swedish krona

Swiss franc

Iceland króna

Norwegian krone

Bulgarian lev

Cyprus pound

Czech koruna

Estonian kroon

Hungarian forint

Lithuanian litas

Exchange
rate

1,1326

134,83

7,4345

LVL

MTL

PLN

Currency

Latvian lats

Maltese lira

Polish zloty

Exchange
rate

0,6469

0,4276

4,364

0,70335

ROL

Romanian leu

37 300

9,202

1,5367

88,63

8,1625

1,9462

SIT

SKK

TRL

AUD

CAD

Slovenian tolar

Slovak koruna

Turkish lira

Australian dollar

Canadian dollar

0,58706

HKD

Hong Kong dollar

32,03

NZD

New Zealand dollar

15,6466

SGD

Singapore dollar

234,945

41,71

1 588 000

1,7384

1,5813

8,8337

1,945

1,9879

259,24

KRW

South Korean won

1 337

3,4533

ZAR

South African rand

8,3066

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(1) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.3251 — PAI Partners/GrandVision) — Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-08-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, exchange of information, investment company, merger control, optical industry

C 189/32

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

9.8.2003

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.3251 — PAI Partners/GrandVision)

Candidate case for simplified procedure

(2003/C 189/06)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 31 July 2003 the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to
1.
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97 (2),
by which the French undertaking PAI Partners acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the
Regulation, control of
the French undertaking GrandVision, by way of public bid
announced on 23 July 2003.

the whole of

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— PAI Partners: private equity operator,

— GrandVision: assembly, treatment, distribution and sales of optical products (outlets:

‘GrandOptical’,

‘Générale d'Optique’, ‘Solaris’, ‘Vision Express Optical Lab’).

3.
On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified concentration could fall within
the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. However, the final decision on this point is reserved. Pursuant
to the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council
Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (3) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the
procedure set out in the notice.

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.3251 — PAI Partners/GrandVision, to:

European Commission,
Directorate-General for Competition,
Merger Registry,
J-70,
B-1049 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.
(3) OJ C 217, 29.7.2000, p. 32.