do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 564/2007 of 24 May 2007 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 958/2006
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, white sugar

25.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 133/9

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 564/2007

of 24 May 2007

fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to
tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 958/2006

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20
February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in
the sugar sector (1), and in particular the second subparagraph
and point (b) of the third subparagraph of Article 33(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 958/2006 of 28 June
2006 on a standing invitation to tender to determine
refunds on exports of white sugar for the 2006/2007
marketing year (2) requires the issuing of partial
invi-
tations to tender.

in response to the partial invitation to tender ending on
24 May 2007, it is appropriate to fix a maximum export
refund for that partial invitation to tender.

(3)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the partial invitation to tender ending on 24 May 2007, the
maximum export
referred
to in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 958/2006 shall be
35,885 EUR/100 kg.

product

refund

the

for

(2)

Pursuant to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 958/2006
and following an examination of the tenders submitted

This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 May 2007.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 24 May 2007.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 247/2007 (OJ L 69, 9.3.2007,
p. 3).

(2) OJ L 175, 29.6.2006, p. 49. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 203/2007 (OJ L 61, 28.2.2007, p. 3).
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

C 114/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.5.2007

IV

(Notices)

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND
BODIES

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

23 May 2007

(2007/C 114/07)

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

1,3490

RON

Romanian leu

163,85

7,4524

SKK

TRY

Slovak koruna

Turkish lira

0,67940

AUD Australian dollar

CAD

HKD

NZD

SGD

Canadian dollar

Hong Kong dollar

New Zealand dollar

Singapore dollar

3,2733

33,743

1,7861

1,6336

1,4610

10,5545

1,8464

2,0628

KRW South Korean won

1 256,39

ZAR

CNY

HRK

IDR

South African rand

Chinese yuan renminbi

Croatian kuna

Indonesian rupiah

MYR Malaysian ringgit

PHP

RUB

THB

Philippine peso

Russian rouble

Thai baht

9,4883

10,3239

7,3168

11 749,79

4,5724

62,108

34,8740

44,517

9,1909

1,6537

82,86

8,1210

1,9558

0,5832

28,247

15,6466

247,67

3,4528

0,6963

0,4293

3,7910

(1) Source:

reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 566/2007 of 24 May 2007 removing the Republic of Chile from the list of beneficiary countries in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Chile, common commercial policy, generalised preferences, sustainable development

L 133/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

25.5.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 566/2007

of 24 May 2007

removing the Republic of Chile from the list of beneficiary countries in Annex I to Council
Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 of
27 June 2005 applying a
scheme of generalised tariff
preferences (1), and in particular Article 26 thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(1)

(2)

The Republic of Chile is included in the list of beneficiary
countries of the Community’s scheme of generalised tariff
preferences, set out
to Regulation (EC)
in Annex I
No 980/2005.

The incorporation,
into the Agreement establishing an
association between the European Community and its
Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of
Chile, of the other part, of all of the tariff preferences
granted to Chile under the Community’s scheme of
generalised tariff preferences has been completed with
the consolidation effected by Decision No 2/2006 of
the EU-Chile Association Council of 16 October 2006
on the amendment of Annex I to the Agreement (2).

Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 provides
for the removal of a country from the list of beneficiary
countries in Annex I thereto, when it benefits from a
preferential commercial agreement with the Community
which covers at least all of the preferences provided by
that scheme for that country.

Annex I
therefore be amended accordingly.

to Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 should

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Generalised
accordance with the opinion of
Preferences Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Republic of Chile shall be removed from the list of ben-
eficiary countries of the Community’s scheme of generalised
tariff preferences, set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
980/2005.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication 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, 24 May 2007.

For the Commission

Peter MANDELSON
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 322, 22.11.2006, p. 5. Decision 2006/792/EC.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 561/2007 of 24 May 2007 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

25.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 133/1

(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory)

I

REGULATIONS

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 561/2007

of 24 May 2007

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:

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

(2)

the standard
In compliance with the above criteria,
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

This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 May 2007.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 24 May 2007.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc 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 133/2

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Official Journal of the European Union

25.5.2007

to Commission Regulation of 24 May 2007 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

0809 20 95

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

MA
TR
ZZ

JO
TR
ZZ

TR
ZZ

EG
IL
MA
ZZ

AR
ZA
ZZ

AR
BR
CL
CN
NZ
US
UY
ZA
ZZ

TR
ZZ

39,1
106,0
72,6

151,2
125,7
138,5

89,2
89,2

35,8
43,8
43,5
41,0

51,6
67,6
59,6

101,2
79,1
78,0
97,3
112,0
132,3
73,3
90,3
95,4

589,4
589,4

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19). Code ‘ZZ’ stands for ‘of

other origin’.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.4346 — NTN/SNR) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: bearing, economic concentration, mechanical engineering, merger control, precision engineering, restrictive-practice authorisation

C 114/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.5.2007

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4346 — NTN/SNR)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/03)

On 27 March 2007, 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 website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4346. EUR-Lex is the on-

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4622 — Accor S.A./Groupama)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/04)

On 4 May 2007, 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 French and will be made public after it is
cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:

— from the Europa competition website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4622. EUR-Lex is the on-

line access to European law. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.4518 — Alcoa/Orkla/Soft Alloy Extrusion JV) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: alloy, aluminium, consumer goods, economic concentration, joint venture, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation, section

24.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 114/3

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4518 — Alcoa/Orkla/Soft Alloy Extrusion JV)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/05)

On 19 April 2007, 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 website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4518. EUR-Lex is the on-

line access to European law. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.4424 — JT/Gallaher) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation, tobacco industry

24.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 114/1

II

(Information)

INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

COMMISSION

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4643 — CVC/Victor Rijssen/Volker Wessels)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/01)

On 14 May 2007, 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 website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4643. EUR-Lex is the on-

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4424 — JT/Gallaher)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/02)

On 21 February 2007, 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 website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4424. EUR-Lex is the on-

line access to European law. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.4643 — CVC/Victor Rijssen/Volker Wessels) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building industry, economic concentration, engineering structure, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation, shareholding

24.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 114/1

II

(Information)

INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

COMMISSION

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4643 — CVC/Victor Rijssen/Volker Wessels)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/01)

On 14 May 2007, 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 website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4643. EUR-Lex is the on-

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4424 — JT/Gallaher)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/02)

On 21 February 2007, 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 website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4424. EUR-Lex is the on-

line access to European law. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 572/2007 of 24 May 2007 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 38/2007
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, white sugar

25.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 133/23

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 572/2007

of 24 May 2007

fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to
tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 38/2007

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20
February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in
the sugar sector (1), and in particular the second subparagraph
and point (b) of the third subparagraph of Article 33(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 38/2007 of 17 January
2007 opening a standing invitation to tender for the
resale for export of sugar held by the intervention
agencies of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland,
Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden (2) requires
the issuing of partial invitations to tender.

in response to the partial invitation to tender ending on
23 May 2007, it is appropriate to fix a maximum export
refund for that partial invitation to tender.

(3)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the partial invitation to tender ending on 23 May 2007, the
referred
maximum export
to in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 38/2007 shall be
403,00 EUR/tonne.

product

refund

the

for

(2)

Pursuant to Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 38/2007
and following an examination of the tenders submitted

This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 May 2007.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 24 May 2007.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 247/2007 (OJ L 69, 9.3.2007,
p .3).

(2) OJ L 11, 18.1.2007, p. 4. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 203/2007 (OJ L 61, 28.2.2006, p. 3).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.4622 — Accor S.A./Groupama) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: banking, economic concentration, hotel industry, insurance, management, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation, service

C 114/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.5.2007

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4346 — NTN/SNR)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/03)

On 27 March 2007, 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 website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4346. EUR-Lex is the on-

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4622 — Accor S.A./Groupama)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 114/04)

On 4 May 2007, 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 French and will be made public after it is
cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:

— from the Europa competition website (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/). This
website 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 32007M4622. EUR-Lex is the on-

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