do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Final report of the Hearing Officer in case COMP/37.685 — GVG/FS (pursuant to Article 15 of Commission Decision 2001/462/EC, ECSC of 23 May 2001 on the terms of reference of Hearing Officers in certain competition proceedings (OJ L 162, 19.6.2001, p. 21))
Date: 2003-08-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: competition law, infringement of EU law, rail transport, report, transport company

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EN

Official Journal of the European Union

16.1.2004

Final report of the Hearing Officer in case COMP/37.685 — GVG/FS

(pursuant to Article 15 of Commission Decision 2001/462/EC, ECSC of 23 May 2001 on the terms
of reference of Hearing Officers in certain competition proceedings (OJ L 162, 19.6.2001, p. 21))

(2004/C 12/02)

On 25 October 1999 Georg Verkehrsorganisation (GVG) submitted a complaint against Ferrovie dello
Stato (FS), the largest Italian railway carrier.

On 21 June 2001 the Commission sent the statement of objections to FS. The addressee twice requested
and was granted an extension to the deadline to reply to the statement of objections. The reply was
submitted on 16 October 2001.

Following the request of the addressee, an oral hearing was held on 30 October 2001. In its written
response and at the oral hearing FS contested many of the factual and legal elements put forward by the
Commission in the statement of objections. Subsequent to the hearing one of the objections set out in the
statement of objections was dropped. The duration of another objection was reduced. In addition, the
Commission carried out additional fact-finding on a number of points, in particular by means of requests
for information. FS was given the opportunity to comment in detail on the non-confidential versions of
the replies received.

FS had access to the file on two occasions, first on 28 September 2001 and, secondly, on 30 May 2002.

Undertakings were submitted on 6 December 2002 and finally on 27 June 2003, FS (Trenitalia) and GVG
signed an international grouping agreement and agreed on terms of the traction contract.

Neither FS nor GVG have raised any procedural issue before the Hearing Officer in this case.

In the light of the above, I consider that the rights to be heard have been respected in the present case. The
draft decision deals only with objections in respect of which the parties have been afforded the oppor-
tunity of making known their views.

Brussels, 11 August 2003.

Karen WILLIAMS
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1426/2003 of 11 August 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2003-08-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1426/2003

of 11 August 2003

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)

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
import arrangements
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1947/2002 (2), and in parti-
cular Article 4(1) thereof,

fruit and vegetables (1), as

for

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down, pursuant to the
outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-
tiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the
standard values for imports from third countries,
in
respect of the products and periods stipulated in the
Annex thereto.

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 12 August 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 August 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66.
(2) OJ L 299, 1.11.2002, p. 17.

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to the Commission Regulation of 11 August 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining the
entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0702 00 00

0709 90 70

0805 50 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)

060
999

052
999

382
388
524
528
999

052
220
400
600
999

039
388
400
508
512
528
720
800
804
999

052
388
512
528
800
999

052
094
999

064
066
093
094
999

34,6
34,6

83,4
83,4

58,2
54,1
48,6
58,7
54,9

114,4
126,8
181,4
117,2
135,0

65,0
66,5
78,9
60,7
75,9
55,0
99,2
202,7
87,9
88,0

100,7
94,6
116,3
87,4
122,9
104,4

93,0
68,0
80,5

74,5
66,4
63,0
66,4
67,6

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2020/2001 (OJ L 273, 16.10.2001, p. 6). Code ‘999’ stands for

‘of other origin’.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1427/2003 of 11 August 2003 correcting Regulation (EC) No 1143/2003 fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 July 2002 to 31 March 2003 for the 2002/03 marketing year
Date: 2003-08-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, cotton, marketing, production aid

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12.8.2003

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1427/2003

of 11 August 2003

correcting Regulation (EC) No 1143/2003 fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 July 2002 to
31 March 2003 for the 2002/03 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in parti-
cular Protocol 4 thereof on cotton, as last amended by Council
Regulation (EC) No 1050/2001 (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 of 22
May 2001 on production aid for cotton (2), and in particular
Article 2(1) thereof,

Whereas:

A check has revealed an error in the Annex to Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1143/2003 (3) as regards the amount of aid
to be paid to Spain in the period covered by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2339/2002 (4). A correction must therefore
be made,

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1143/2003 is hereby
corrected as follows:

in the column headed ‘Spain’, the amount of EUR 63,050,
corresponding to Regulation (EC) No 2339/2002,
is
replaced by EUR 62,942.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 August 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 160, 28.6.2003, p. 41.
(4) OJ L 349, 24.12.2002, p. 33.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1434/2003 of 11 August 2003 on the issue of system B export licences in the fruit and vegetables sector (table grapes)
Date: 2003-08-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, grape

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1434/2003

of 11 August 2003

on the issue of system B export licences in the fruit and vegetables sector (table grapes)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in
fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended by Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 47/2003 (2),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1961/2001
of 8 October 2001 on detailed rules for implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards export refunds on fruit
and vegetables (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1176/2002 (4), and in particular Article 6(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1061/2003 (5) fixes the
indicative quantities for which system B export licences
may be issued.

In the light of the information available to the Commis-
sion today, there is a risk that the indicative quantities
laid down for the current export period for table grapes

will shortly be exceeded. This overrun will prejudice the
proper working of the export refund scheme in the fruit
and vegetables sector.

(3)

To avoid this situation, applications for system B licences
for table grapes after 11 August 2003 should be rejected
until the end of the current export period,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Applications for system B export
licences for table grapes
submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1061/
2003, export declarations for which are accepted after 11
August 2003 and before 17 September 2003, are hereby
rejected.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 August 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 August 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 7, 11.1.2003, p. 64.
(3) OJ L 268, 9.10.2001, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 170, 29.6.2002, p. 69.
(5) OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 44.