do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M. 3943 — Saint-Gobain/BPB) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building materials, economic concentration, exchange of information, industrial production, merger control

C 250/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

8.10.2005

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M. 3943 — Saint-Gobain/BPB)

(2005/C 250/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 30 September 2005, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration
pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking Compagnie de
Saint-Gobain (‘Saint-Gobain’, France) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regu-
lation control of the whole of the undertaking BPB plc (‘BPB’, UK) by way of public bid announced on 3
August 2005.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— for Saint-Gobain: production, distribution and sale of glass, plastics, ceramics, cast iron and building

materials;

— for BPB: production and sale of plaster based products, insulation materials, tiles and related products.

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

3.
scope of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed

4.
operation to the Commission.

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication.
Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post,
under reference number COMP/M. 3943 — Saint-Gobain/BPB, to the following address:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Competition
Merger Registry
J-70
BE-1049 Brussels

(1) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2005-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

8.10.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 250/1

I

(Information)

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

7 October 2005

(2005/C 250/01)

1 euro =

Currency

Exchange rate

Currency

Exchange rate

USD

JPY

DKK

GBP

SEK

CHF

ISK

NOK

BGN

CYP

CZK

EEK

HUF

LTL

LVL

MTL

PLN

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

Latvian lats

Maltese lira

Polish zloty

RON

Romanian leu

1,2144

137,82

7,4618

0,687

9,3375

1,5484

74,8

7,888

1,9556

0,5731

29,638

15,6466

250,61

3,4528

0,6977

0,4293

3,9223

3,6008

SIT

SKK

TRY

Slovenian tolar

Slovak koruna

Turkish lira

AUD Australian dollar

CAD

HKD

Canadian dollar

Hong Kong dollar

NZD New Zealand dollar

SGD

Singapore dollar

239,53

38,943

1,6412

1,6016

1,4325

9,418

1,7423

2,0451

KRW South Korean won

1 259,64

ZAR

CNY

HRK

IDR

South African rand

Chinese yuan renminbi

Croatian kuna

7,9702

9,8269

7,402

Indonesian rupiah

12 177,4

MYR Malaysian ringgit

PHP

RUB

THB

Philippine peso

Russian rouble

Thai baht

4,5774

67,672

34,595

49,586

(1) Source:

reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.3947 — Svitzer/Wilhelmsen/JV) — Candidate case for simplified procedure Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, emergency aid, exchange of information, maritime transport, merger control, provision of services

8.10.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 250/13

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.3947 — Svitzer/Wilhelmsen/JV)

Candidate case for simplified procedure

(2005/C 250/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 3 October 2005, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant
to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertakings Aktienselskabet Em. Z.
Svitzer and its subsidiaries (‘Svitzer’, Denmark) controlled by A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S and Wilhelmsen
Offshore & Chartering AS (‘Wilhelmsen’, Norway) controlled by Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA acquire within the
meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of an undertaking (‘JV’) by way of
purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— for Svitzer: towage services, emergency response and rescue services and provision of crew boat

services;

— for Wilhelmsen: crew boat services and chartering of vessels for special transportation, as well as

marine services;

— for JV: crew boat activities which are located in South East Asia and the Middle East.

3.
On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the
scope of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. 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 (EC) No 139/2004 (2) 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 their possible observations on the proposed

4.
operation to the Commission.

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication.
Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post,
under reference number COMP/M.3947 — Svitzer/Wilhelmsen/JV, to the following address:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Competition
Merger Registry
J-70
BE-1049 Brussels

(1) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.
Corrigendum to Decision No 197 of 23 March 2004 on the transitional periods for the introduction of the European Health Insurance Card in accordance with Article 5 of Decision No 191 (OJ L 343, 19.11.2004)
Date: 2005-10-08
Institutions: Administrative Commission on Social Security for Migrant Workers, European Commission
Subjects: EFTA countries, EU Member State, accession to the European Union, derogation from EU law, health card, health insurance, transitional period (EU)

L 263/28

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

8.10.2005

CORRIGENDA

Corrigendum to Decision No 197 of 23 March 2004 on the transitional periods for the introduction of the
European Health Insurance Card in accordance with Article 5 of Decision No 191

(Official Journal of the European Union L 343 of 19 November 2004)

On page 30, in Annex II, for Hungary:

for:

read:

‘31 December 2005’,
‘31 October 2005’.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.3951 — Nomura/Kamps Food Retail Investments/Nordsee) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: access to information, catering industry, distributive trades, economic concentration, investment bank, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation

C 250/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

8.10.2005

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.3951 — Nomura/Kamps Food Retail Investments/Nordsee)

(2005/C 250/06)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 28 September 2005, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to
declare it compatible with the common market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 139/2004. The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public
after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:

— from the Europa competition web site (http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
web site provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case
number, date and sectoral indexes,

— in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32005M3951. EUR-Lex is the on-

line access to European law. (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex)