do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2003 of 9 September 2003 on the issue of system B export licences in the fruit and vegetables sector (apples)
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, pip fruit

10.9.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 226/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1580/2003

of 9 September 2003

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

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 apples 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 apples after 9 September 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 apples submitted
pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1061/2003, export
declarations for which are accepted after 9 September 2003
and before 17 September 2003, are hereby rejected.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 September 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 September 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.
Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of Council Directive 90/396/EEC of 29 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Community certification, approximation of laws, gas appliance, safety standard

9.9.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 214/3

Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of Council Directive
90/396/EEC of 29 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to
appliances burning gaseous fuels (1)

(2003/C 214/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(Publication of titles and references of European harmonised standards under the Directive)

ESO (1)

Reference

Title of the Harmonised Standards

CEN

EN 419-1:1999/A3:2002 Non-domestic gas-fired overhead luminous radiant heaters — Part 1: Safety

(1) ESO: European standardisation organisations:

— CEN: rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Brussels, tel. (32-2) 550 08 11, fax (32-2) 550 08 19 (http://www.cenorm.be)
— Cenelec: rue de Stassart 35, B-1050 Brussels, tel. (32-2) 519 68 71, fax (32-2) 519 69 19 (http://www.cenelec.org)
— ETSI: 650, route des Lucioles, F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, tel. (33-4) 92 94 42 00, fax (33-4) 93 65 47 16 (http://www.etsi.org).

NOTE:

— Any information concerning the availability of the standards can be obtained either from the European
standardisation organisations or from the national standardisation bodies (2) of which the list is
annexed to the European Parliament and Council Directive 98/34/EC (3) amended by the Directive
98/48/EC (4);

— Publication of the references in the Official Journal of the European Union does not imply that the

standards are available in all the Community languages.

— Further Harmonised Standards relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels have been published in
previous editions of the Official Journal of the European Union. A complete updated list can be found on
the Europa-Server in the Internet at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/standardisation/harmstds/reflist/appligas.html

(1) OJ L 196, 26.7.1990, p. 15.
(2) http://www.cenorm.be/aboutcen/whatis/membership/members.htm
(3) OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37.
(4) OJ L 217, 5.8.1998, p. 18.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.3269 — Phoenix/Tamro) — Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, exchange of information, merger control, pharmaceutical product

9.9.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 214/5

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.3269 — Phoenix/Tamro)

Candidate case for simplified procedure

(2003/C 214/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 29 August 2003, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant
1.
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 Phoenix International Beteiligungs GmbH, Germany,
belonging to the Phoenix-group, acquires, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Regulation,
control of the whole of the undertaking Tamro Oyj, Finland, by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— Phoenix: wholesale of pharmaceuticals and related services,

— Tamro: wholesale of pharmaceuticals and related services in Northern Europe.

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 Regu-
lation (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.3269 — Phoenix/Tamro, 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.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.3241 — Arla/Nordzucker/JV) — Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, exchange of information, fresh product, merger control, milk product, sugar, sweetener

C 214/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

9.9.2003

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.3241 — Arla/Nordzucker/JV)

Candidate case for simplified procedure

(2003/C 214/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 1 September 2003 the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant
1.
to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (1), as
last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1310/97 (2), by which the undertakings Arla Foods Ingredients amba (‘AFI’, Denmark) belonging to
the Arla Foods amba group (‘Arla’, Denmark), and Nordzucker AG (‘Nordzucker’, Germany) acquire, within
the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of
the undertaking Sweetgredients
GmbH & Co. KG (‘Sweetgredients’, Germany) currently wholly-owned by Nordzucker by way of
purchase of shares and other means, thereby constituting a joint venture.

joint control of

the Regulation,

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— Arla: global supplier of dairy products,

— AFI: production and supply of whey protein concentrate, milk powder, cheese powder, lactose and

milk proteins,

— Nordzucker: production and supply of sugar and sweeteners,

— Sweetgredients: production and supply of a new innovative sweetener product, D-tagatose, derived

from by-products of cheese production.

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 Regu-
lation (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.3241 — Arla/Nordzucker/JV, 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.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

9.9.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 214/1

I

(Information)

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

8 September 2003

(2003/C 214/01)

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

1,1071

129,41

7,4279

0,6985

9,1285

1,5383

89,15

8,2475

1,947

LVL

MTL

PLN

ROL

SIT

SKK

TRL

AUD

CAD

Currency

Latvian lats

Maltese lira

Polish zloty

Romanian leu

Slovenian tolar

Slovak koruna

Turkish lira

Australian dollar

Canadian dollar

0,58265

HKD

Hong Kong dollar

32,886

NZD

New Zealand dollar

15,6466

SGD

Singapore dollar

Exchange
rate

0,6353

0,4261

4,4239

37 657

235,105

41,77

1 530 000

1,7129

1,5195

8,6347

1,9212

1,9438

256,36

KRW

South Korean won

1 296,91

3,4533

ZAR

South African rand

8,3226

___________
(1) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Invitation to submit an application for a hydrocarbon prospecting licence for sector P11c of the Netherlands Continental Shelf (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Netherlands, hydrocarbon, invitation to tender, mineral prospecting

9.9.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 214/7

Invitation to submit an application for a hydrocarbon prospecting licence for sector P11c of the
Netherlands Continental Shelf

(2003/C 214/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

The Minister for Economic Affairs of
the Netherlands hereby announces that an
application for a hydrocarbon prospecting licence has been received for the part of the area P11 designated
as sector P11c on the map in Annex 3 to the Mining Regulations (Stcrt. 2002, No 245).

the Kingdom of

In accordance with Article 3(2)(b) of European Parliament and Council Directive 94/22/EC of 30 May
1994 on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and
production of hydrocarbons and the publication referred to in Article 15 of the Mining Act (Stb. 2002,
542), the Minister for Economic Affairs hereby invites interested parties to submit an application for a
hydrocarbon prospecting licence for sector P11c.

Applications may be submitted within 13 weeks of publication of this invitation in the Official Journal of
the European Union, addressed to:

the Minister for Economic Affairs,
marked for the personal attention of the Director for Energy Production,
Bezuidenhoutseweg 6 (as from October Prinses Beatrixlaan 5),
The Hague,
Netherlands.

Applications submitted after this deadline will not be taken into consideration.

A decision on the applications will be made not later than nine months after the expiry of this deadline.

For further information, please ring the following telephone number: ((31-70) 379 66 94).
Commission Communication in the framework of the implementation of Directive 2002/61/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 July 2002 amending for the nineteenth time Council Directive 76/769/EEC relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations (azocolourants) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: dangerous substance, dyestuff, marketing restriction

C 214/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

9.9.2003

Commission Communication in the framework of the implementation of Directive 2002/61/EC of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 July 2002 amending for the nineteenth time
Council Directive 76/769/EEC relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain
dangerous substances and preparations (azocolourants) (1)

(2003/C 214/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(Publication of titles and references of European harmonised standards under the Directive)

ESO (*)

Reference and title of the standard

Reference document

Reference of the
superseded standard

CEN

CEN

CEN

Leather — Chemical
certain azo colourants in dyed leathers

tests — Determination of

CEN ISO/TS 17234:2003

None

Textiles — Methods for the determination of certain
aromatic amines derived from azo colorants — Part
1: Detection of the use of certain azo colorants
accessible without extraction

Textiles — Methods for determination of certain
aromatic amines derived from azo colorants —
Part 2: Detection of
certain azo
colorants accessible by extracting the fibres

the use of

EN 14362-1:2003

None

EN 14362-2:2003

None

(*) ESO: European Standardisation Organisations.

— CEN: rue de Stassart/Stassartstraat 36, B-1050 Bruxelles; phone: (32-2) 550 08 11, fax: (32-2) 550 08 19 (http://www.cenorm.be).
519 69 19
— Cenelec:

35, B-1050 Bruxelles;

Stassart/Stassartstraat

519 68 71;

phone:

(32-2)

(32-2)

fax:

rue
(http://www.cenelec.org).

de

— ETSI: 650,

route des Lucioles, F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex; phone:

(33-4) 92 94 42 00,

fax:

(33-4) 93 65 47 16

(http://www.etsi.org).

(1) OJ L 243, 11.9.2002, p. 15.
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 (Notice regarding an application for an exclusive licence to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, designated the Gaz de Saint-Étienne licence) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: France
Subjects: Rhône-Alpes, hydrocarbon, mineral prospecting, mining extraction, mining operation

C 214/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

9.9.2003

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)

(Notice regarding an application for an exclusive licence to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, designated
the ‘Gaz de Saint-Étienne’ licence)

(2003/C 214/06)

(Text with EEA relevance)

By request of 21 August 2002, supplemented and amended on 31 March 2003, Heritage Petroleum plc,
with registered offices at 15 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LS (United Kingdom), applied for an
exclusive five-year licence, designated the ‘Gaz de Saint-Étienne licence’, to prospect for liquid and gaseous
hydrocarbons in an area of approximately 700 km2 forming part of the departments of Loire, Rhône and
Isère.

The area covered by this licence is contained within a perimeter 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:

Vertex

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Longitude

2,10 gr E

2,40 gr E

2,40 gr E

2,60 gr E

2,60 gr E

2,40 gr E

2,40 gr E

2,10 gr E

Latitude

50,60 gr N

50,60 gr N

50,70 gr N

50,70 gr N

50,50 gr N

50,50 gr N

50,40 gr N

50,40 gr N

Interested companies may, within 90 days of
this notice, submit a competing
application in accordance with the procedure summarised in the ‘notice regarding 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 (Direc-
torate-General for Energy and Raw Materials, Directorate for Energy and Mineral Resources, Bureau of
Mining Legislation), 61, Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Télédoc 133, F-75703 Paris Cedex 13,
(33)
144 97 02 30, fax (33) 144 97 05 70).

(tel.

(1) OJ L 164, 30.6.1994, p. 3.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1579/2003 of 9 September 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2003-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

10.9.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 226/1

I

(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1579/2003

of 9 September 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 10 September 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 September 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.

L 226/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

10.9.2003

to the Commission Regulation of 9 September 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining
the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0702 00 00

0707 00 05

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)

052
060
064
096
999

052
096
999

052
999

388
524
528
999

052
064
999

388
400
508
512
528
720
800
804
999

052
388
720
999

052
999

052
060
064
066
068
093
094
512
624
999

136,2
112,5
73,5
45,5
91,9

120,2
16,4
68,3

83,4
83,4

60,7
54,5
57,2
57,5

73,5
62,1
67,8

75,6
86,1
71,7
96,0
44,5
61,8
163,0
87,3
85,8

109,3
87,3
56,8
84,5

100,9
100,9

78,6
62,4
60,5
65,8
54,5
70,3
58,4
67,0
126,2
69,8

(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’.