do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2006-06-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

10.6.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 137/1

I

(Information)

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

9 June 2006

(2006/C 137/01)

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

1,2659

144,25

7,4564

0,68685

9,2243

1,5569

93,43

7,8165

1,9558

0,5750

28,225

15,6466

264,12

3,4528

0,6961

0,4293

3,9605

3,5159

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

37,866

1,9499

1,6902

1,4067

9,8247

1,9999

2,0183

KRW South Korean won

1 208,30

ZAR

CNY

HRK

IDR

South African rand

Chinese yuan renminbi

Croatian kuna

8,4831

10,1500

7,2565

Indonesian rupiah

11 899,46

MYR Malaysian ringgit

PHP

RUB

THB

Philippine peso

Russian rouble

Thai baht

4,642

67,257

34,1820

48,532

(1) Source:

reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.4203 — Bayerngas/Deutsche Essent/Novogate JV) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2006-06-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, gas industry, gas supply, merger control

C 137/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

10.6.2006

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4203 — Bayerngas/Deutsche Essent/Novogate JV)

(2006/C 137/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 23 May 2006, 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 Regulation
(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://ec.europa.eu/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 32006M4203. EUR-Lex is the on-

line access to European law. (http://ec.europa.eu/eur-lex/lex)
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.4251 — Berkshire/Iscar Metalworking Companies) — Candidate case for simplified procedure Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2006-06-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, insurance company, investment company, merger control, metallurgical industry

10.6.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 137/3

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.4251 — Berkshire/Iscar Metalworking Companies)

Candidate case for simplified procedure

(2006/C 137/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 1 June 2006, 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 Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
(Berkshire, USA) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the
whole of the Metalworking IMC International Metalworking Companies (IMC, Israel) by way of purchase of
shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— for Berkshire: property and casualty insurance, investment activities;

— for IMC: cutting tools and metalworking applications.

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 (fax No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post,
under reference number COMP/M.4251 — Berkshire/Iscar Metalworking Companies, to the following
address:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Competition,
Merger Registry
J-70
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel

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