do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.3268 — Sydkraft/Graninge) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-10-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, electrical industry, exchange of information, heating, merger control

C 240/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

7.10.2003

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.3268 — Sydkraft/Graninge)

(2003/C 240/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 29 September 2003 the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration
pursuant 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 Sydkraft AB (‘Sydkraft’, Sweden) belonging to the E.ON Group
(‘E.ON’, Germany) acquires, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Regulation, control of the whole
of the undertaking Graninge AB (‘Graninge’, Sweden) by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— Sydkraft: primarily generation, transmission, trading, distribution and supply of electricity; production

and distribution of district heating,

— E.ON: inter alia generation, distribution and supply of electricity,

— Graninge: generation, transmission, trading, distribution and supply of electricity; production and

distribution of district heating.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified concentration could fall within

3.
the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

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.3268 — Sydkraft/Graninge, 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.
Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 325/2003 of 20 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products (OJ L 47 of 21.2.2003)
Date: 2003-10-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, export licence, import licence

L 253/26

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

7.10.2003

CORRIGENDA

Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 325/2003 of 20 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No
1291/2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences
and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products

(Official Journal of the European Union L 47 of 21 February 2003)

On page 30:

against letter L, for ‘FRUIT AND VEGETABLES’:

for:
read:

‘ex 0802 08 05’,
‘ex 0802

0805’; and

against letter M, for ‘PRODUCTS PROCESSED FROM FRUIT AND VEGETABLES’:

for:
read:

‘ex 0812 20 02’,
‘ex 0812
2002’.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2003-10-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

7.10.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 240/3

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

6 October 2003

(2003/C 240/03)

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

1,1579

128,66

7,4287

0,6952

8,971

1,5468

88,84

8,164

1,9475

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

0,58439

HKD

Hong Kong dollar

31,84

NZD

New Zealand dollar

15,6466

SGD

Singapore dollar

Exchange
rate

0,6459

0,4275

4,5417

38 376

235,67

41,24

1 581 000

1,7013

1,5589

8,9279

1,9477

2,0001

253,35

KRW

South Korean won

1 333,26

3,4524

ZAR

South African rand

8,1052

___________
(1) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Notification of cooperation agreements — Case COMP/C2/38.733 (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-10-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cooperation agreement, inter-company agreement, press

7.10.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 240/5

Notification of cooperation agreements

Case COMP/C2/38.733

(2003/C 240/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 5 May 2003 the Commission received notification under Articles 2 and 4 of Council Regulation
No 17 from AMP (formerly known as ‘Agence et Messageries de la Presse’) regarding the new version of its
general conditions for press distribution (‘Conditions Générales de Fourniture de Presse: CGFP’) that has to
be concluded between AMP and its distributors in any category. These agreements replace the previous
ones, which had been approved by the Commission in its exemption comfort letter of 3 June 1999. AMP
is a subsidiary of the group Hachette Distribution Services SA, itself controlled by the group Lagardère
SCA.

2.
The purpose of the notified agreements is to set out the terms and conditions whereby AMP supplies
newspapers and periodicals to its distributors. According to AMP, the agreements are designed to simplify
the present conditions in response to demands by market players while preserving the aim of expanding
the distribution of newspapers and periodicals. This will be achieved, on the one hand, through compre-
hensive rationalisation of the contractual conditions (and, in particular, abolition of the system of differ-
entiated discounts depending on the category to which the distributor belongs) and, on the other, by
merging the four existing contracts into a single contract applicable to all distributors.

The main amendments are:

— removal of any requirements as to the number of titles sold;

— application of a reduced threshold of EUR 6 080 for the net minimum turnover to be achieved by the

retailer each year with AMP;

— participation by the distributor in AMP's structural costs where the distributor does not achieve a net

annual turnover of more than EUR 30 403 with AMP.

Following a preliminary analysis, the Commission considers that the notified agreements might be

3.
covered by Regulation No 17.

The Commission invites all interested third parties to submit any observations they may have on the

4.
notified agreements.

5.
Observations must reach the Commission not later than thirty days following the date of this
publication. They can be sent by fax (No (32-2) 296 98 04) or by post, under reference COMP/C2/38.733
— AMP — Nouvelles CGFP, to:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Competition
Directorate C
Unit C2 (Media)
B-1049 Brussels.
2003/740/EC: Council Decision of 7 October 2003 concerning the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Republic of Croatia concerning the system of ecopoints to be applied to Croatian transit traffic through Austria as from 1 January 2003
Date: 2003-10-07
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Austria, Croatia, Union transit, interim agreement (EU), tradeable emission permit

18.10.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 268/67

II

(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 7 October 2003

concerning the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the
European Community and the Republic of Croatia concerning the system of ecopoints to be
applied to Croatian transit traffic through Austria as from 1 January 2003

(2003/740/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(4)

This Agreement should be approved,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity, and in particular Article 71(1)
in conjunction with
Article 300(2), first subparagraph, first sentence and Article
300(3), first subparagraph thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related
matters between the European Community, of the one
part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part (2),
and in particular Article 2(2)(b) of Protocol 6 on road
transit
traffic, establishes that a system of ecopoints
equivalent to that laid down by Article 11 of Protocol 9
to the 1994 Act of Accession is to apply.

The Commission has negotiated on behalf of
the
Community an Agreement in the form of an Exchange
of Letters between the European Community and the
Republic of Croatia establishing the method of calcula-
tion and the detailed rules and procedures for the
management and control of the ecopoints.

This Agreement was signed on behalf of the Community
on 23 July 2003, subject to its possible conclusion at a
later date, in accordance with Council Decision 2003/
440/EC (3).

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the European Community and the Republic of Croatia
concerning the system of ecopoints to be applied to Croatian
transit traffic through Austria as from 1 January 2003 is hereby
approved on behalf of the Community.

The text of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of
Letters is attached to this Decision (4).

Article 2

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Done at Luxembourg, 7 October 2003.

For the Council

The President

G. TREMONTI

(1) Opinion delivered on 15 May 2003 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

(2) OJ L 330, 14.12.2001, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 150, 18.6.2003, p. 32.

(4) For text of Agreement, see OJ L 150, 18.6.2003, p. 33. The Agree-

ment was signed on behalf of Croatia on 1 August 2003.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1760/2003 of 7 October 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2003-10-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

8.10.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 254/1

I

(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1760/2003

of 7 October 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 8 October 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 October 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 254/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

8.10.2003

to the Commission Regulation of 7 October 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

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

052
060
064
068
096
999

052
999

052
999

052
382
388
524
528
999

052
064
508
999

060
388
400
508
512
720
800
804
999

052
064
388
999

89,2
84,9
110,4
88,6
72,9
89,2

96,2
96,2

102,9
102,9

85,7
58,3
65,8
61,9
48,1
64,0

105,5
114,9
296,5
172,3

47,7
76,2
74,7
103,4
106,7
47,8
188,6
106,9
94,0

106,5
48,0
170,0
108,2

(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’.