do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulations (EC) No 6/2002 and (EC) No 40/94 to give effect to the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs (COM(2005)0689 - C6-0058/2006 - 2005/0274(CNS))
Date: 2006-05-17
Institutions: Committee on Legal Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: EU law, EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, World Intellectual Property Organisation, designs and models, industrial property

7.12.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 297 E/181

— having regard to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council

consulted Parliament (C6-0061/2006),

Wednesday, 17 May 2006

— having regard to Rules 51 and 83(7) of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0166/2006);

1. Approves the Commission proposal;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission, and to the governments

2.
and parliaments of the Member States.

P6_TA(2006)0209

Measures to give effect to the accession to the Geneva Act *

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regu-
lations (EC) No 6/2002 and (EC) No 40/94 to give effect to the accession of the European Com-
munity to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of
industrial designs (COM(2005)0689 — C6-0058/2006 — 2005/0274(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2005)0689) (1),

— having regard to Article 308 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament

(C6-0058/2006),

— having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0167/2006);

1. Approves the Commission proposal;

2. Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

3. Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal substan-
tially;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, and to the govern-

4.
ments and parliaments of the Member States.

(1) Not yet published in OJ.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 741/2006 of  17 May 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 1060/2005 as regards the quantity covered by the standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Slovak intervention agency
Date: 2006-05-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Slovakia, award of contract, common wheat, export, intervention agency

L 130/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

18.5.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 741/2006

of 17 May 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1060/2005 as regards the quantity covered by the standing invitation
to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Slovak intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29
September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2005 is replaced by the
following:

Whereas:

‘Article 2

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1060/2005 (2) opened a
standing invitation to tender for the export of 229 858
tonnes of common wheat held by the Slovak inter-
vention agency.

Slovakia has informed the Commission of
vention agency’s
tonnes the quantity put out to tender for export.
view of
situation,
granted.

its inter-
intention to increase by 28 820
In
the quantities
and the market
the request made by Slovakia should be

available

The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of 258 678
tonnes of common wheat for export to third countries with
the exception of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Liech-
tenstein, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (*) and Swit-
zerland.

___________
(*) including Kosovo as defined by United Nations Security

Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.’

Article 2

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1060/2005 should therefore be
amended.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation 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, 17 May 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ L 187, 19.7.2005, p. 11).
(2) OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 608/2006 (OJ L 107, 20.4.2006, p. 27).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 738/2006 of  17 May 2006  establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2006-05-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, import price, pip fruit

18.5.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 130/1

I

(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 738/2006

of 17 May 2006

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
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the
fruit and vegetables (1), and in
import arrangements
particular Article 4(1) thereof,

for

Whereas:

standard values for imports from third countries,
in
respect of the products and periods stipulated in the
Annex thereto.

(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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex
hereto.

(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

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 May 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 May 2006.

For the Commission

J. L. DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 386/2005 (OJ L 62, 9.3.2005, p. 3).

L 130/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

18.5.2006

to Commission Regulation of 17 May 2006 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 10 20

0805 50 10

0808 10 80

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

052
204
212
999

052
999

052
999

204
212
220
400
448
624
999

052
388
508
528
624
999

388
400
404
508
512
524
528
720
804
999

100,7
49,7
153,3
101,2

96,4
96,4

117,1
117,1

34,7
64,4
38,6
20,3
46,6
49,8
42,4

42,4
59,4
40,3
55,5
54,7
50,5

87,0
125,4
110,2
73,4
82,7
61,2
106,4
79,0
110,4
92,9

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 750/2005 (OJ L 126, 19.5.2005, p. 12). Code ‘999’ stands for ‘of

other origin’.
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive on the exemption from taxes of imports of small consignments of goods of a non-commercial character from third countries (codified version) (COM(2006) 12 final — 2006/0007 (CNS))
Date: 2006-05-17
Institutions: European Economic and Social Committee
Subjects: codification of EU law, postal service, tax-free allowance, third country

18.8.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 195/19

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive
on the exemption from taxes of imports of small consignments of goods of a non-commercial
character from third countries (codified version)

(COM(2006) 12 final — 2006/0007 (CNS))

(2006/C 195/05)

On 14 February 2006 the Council decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee,
under Article 93 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, on the abovementioned proposal.

The Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption, which was responsible for preparing the
Committee's work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 25 April 2006. The rapporteur was
Mr Danusēvičs.

At its 427th plenary session, held on 17 and 18 May 2006 (meeting of 17 May), the European Economic
and Social Committee adopted the following opinion by 132 votes to 1 with 2 abstentions.

1.
The purpose of the proposal is to codify Council Directive
78/1035/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the exemption from
taxes of imports of small consignments of goods of a non-
commercial character from third countries. The new directive
will supersede the various acts incorporated in it;
fully
preserves the contents of the acts and does no more than bring
them together with only such formal amendments as are required
by the codification exercise itself.

it

2.
The Committee can only endorse the general codification
of Community provisions undertaken by the Commission on
the decision adopted on 1 April 1987 and
the basis of
confirmed in the conclusions of
It
therefore approves the proposed directive, as it has already
done for similar initiatives on other occasions.

the Edinburgh summit.

3.
The Committee notes that, in accordance with the interin-
stitutional agreement of 20 December 1994 between the Euro-
pean Parliament, the Council and the Commission, no changes
of substance may be made in the codification. The Commission
guarantees to respect this condition in the text of the proposed
directive.

The consultative role of the EESC and its sense of respon-
4.
sible mean that
it must check the amendments before
approving the document. The rapporteur has done this and
finds no grounds for criticism or specific comment.

The Committee supports the proposed codification which

5.
is part of the simplification and clarification of European law.

Brussels, 17 May 2006.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Anne-Marie SIGMUND
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2006-05-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

17.5.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 116/1

I

(Information)

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

16 May 2006

(2006/C 116/01)

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

1,2817

141,33

7,4558

0,68110

9,3985

1,5525

91,13

7,8360

1,9558

0,5751

28,312

15,6466

262,83

3,4528

0,6960

0,4293

3,9110

3,5209

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

239,65

37,540

1,8580

1,6822

1,4263

9,9375

2,0625

2,0218

KRW South Korean won

1 211,21

ZAR

CNY

HRK

IDR

South African rand

Chinese yuan renminbi

Croatian kuna

8,1821

10,2728

7,2698

Indonesian rupiah

11 810,87

MYR Malaysian ringgit

PHP

RUB

THB

Philippine peso

Russian rouble

Thai baht

4,617

67,110

34,6280

48,893

(1) Source:

reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Amended Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a Cohesion Fund (Codified version) (COM(2006) 5 final — 2003/0129 (AVC))
Date: 2006-05-17
Institutions: European Economic and Social Committee
Subjects: Cohesion Fund, codification of EU law

18.8.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 195/61

3.10
The EESC agrees with the Commission that the vast
array of national rules is a major obstacle for SMEs. As the
bilateral agreements concluded between 25 Member States
would, in theory, all differ from each other, this will make it
necessary for SMEs to restrict themselves to a limited number
of such agreements. The diversity of the agreements would not
therefore bring SMEs the hoped for simplification.

3.11 Moreover, the EESC is concerned about the practical
consequences of the Commission's stated desire not to lay
down more detailed provisions for the proposed pilot experi-
ment. How will it be possible to harmonise tax rules (which is

desirable in the long term) after
the implementation of
numerous bilateral agreements, if agreement has not first been
reached on certain basic convergence criteria?

3.12
Finally, the EESC notes that no detailed research has
been undertaken to determine whether schemes already exist in
the Europe between states or regions, such as Switzerland, Lich-
tenstein or the Vatican, or with principalities such as Monaco,
San Marino, Andorra, etc., to eliminate or reduce the impact
on companies (especially SMEs) of the plethora of national,
regional and local tax rules.

Brussels, 17 May 2006.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Anne-Marie SIGMUND

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Amended Proposal for a Council
Regulation establishing a Cohesion Fund (Codified version)

(COM(2006) 5 final — 2003/0129 (AVC))

(2006/C 195/15)

On 28 February 2006 the Council of the European Union decided to consult the European Economic and
Social Committee, under Article 262 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, on the above-
mentioned proposal.

The Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion, which was responsible
for preparing the Committee's work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 28 April 2006. The rapporteur
was Mr Grasso.

At its 427th plenary session, held on 17-18 May 2006 (meeting of 17 May), the European Economic and
Social Committee adopted the following opinion by 146 votes to one with two abstentions.

The European Economic and Social Committee supports the Commission's initiative to undertake the

1.
codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 1164/94 establishing the Cohesion Fund.

2.
The EESC confirms its opinion, previously expressed on several occasions, that the codification of EU
rules helps to bring the European public closer to the EU's instruments. This is all the more important in
the case of cohesion policy, which is central to the process of European integration.

Brussels, 17 May 2006.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Anne-Marie SIGMUND
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.4195 — Inchcape/Lind) — Candidate case for simplified procedure Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2006-05-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, general mechanical engineering, merger control, motor vehicle, retail trade

17.5.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 116/7

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.4195 — Inchcape/Lind)

Candidate case for simplified procedure

(2006/C 116/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 4 May 2006 the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Inchcape plc (‘Inchcape’, UK) acquires
within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of Lind Automotive
Group Ltd (‘Lind, UK’) by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— Inchcape: retail and servicing of motor vehicles, financial services, vehicle fleet solutions,

— Lind: retail and servicing of motor vehicles.

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.4195 — Inchcape/Lind, to the following address:

European Commission
Competition DG
Merger Registry
J-70
B-1049 Brussels

(1) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.