do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Judgment of the Court of 3 October 2007 in Case E-1/07: criminal proceedings against A (Lawyers' freedom to provide services — Directive 77/249/EEC — Article 7 EEA — Protocol 35 EEA — Principles of primacy and direct effect — Conforming interpretation)
Date: 2007-10-03
Institutions: EFTA Court
Subjects: EFTA Court, criminal procedure, freedom to provide services, interpretation of the law, lawyer, national implementing measure, national law

24.1.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 17/13

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

of 3 October 2007

in Case E-1/07: criminal proceedings against A

(Lawyers' freedom to provide services — Directive 77/249/EEC — Article 7 EEA — Protocol 35 EEA — Principles
of primacy and direct effect — Conforming interpretation)

(2008/C 17/09)

Justice), concerning the interpretation of

In Case E-1/07, criminal proceedings against A — request to the Court by Fürstliches Landgericht (Princely
the rules on the freedom to provide services in
Court of
the European Economic Area (EEA), and in particular Council Directive 77/249/EEC of 22 March 1977 to
facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services, the Court, composed of Carl
Baudenbacher, President, Henrik Bull,
Judge, Thorgeir Örlygsson Judge-Rapporteur, gave judgment on
3 October 2007, the operative part of which is as follows:

1. A provision of national law, according to which, in court proceedings in which a party is repre-
sented by a lawyer or a defending counsel must be engaged, a lawyer from another EEA State
providing services must call in a national lawyer to act in conjunction with him or her, does not
fall under Article 5 of Council Directive 77/249/EEC to facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers
of freedom to provide services, referred to at point 2 of Annex VII EEA, and is incompatible
with Article 36(1) EEA and the Directive if it requires the appointment of a national lawyer in
cases where representation by a lawyer is not mandatory.

2. The EEA Agreement does not require that a provision of a directive that has been made part of
the EEA Agreement is directly applicable and takes precedence over a national rule that fails to
transpose the relevant EEA rule correctly into national law.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.4820 — Bain Capital/Brake Bros) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2007-10-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: disclosure of information, distributive trades, economic concentration, foodstuff, hotel industry, investment transaction, merger control

C 231/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

3.10.2007

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4749 — PSB/OVAKO)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 231/02)

On 6 September 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 32007M4749. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4820 — Bain Capital/Brake Bros)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 231/03)

On 7 September 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 32007M4820. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1157/2007 of 3 October 2007 approving a non-minor amendment to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Sierra Mágina (PDO))
Date: 2007-10-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, designation of origin, fats, location of production, product designation

4.10.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 258/15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1157/2007

of 3 October 2007

approving a non-minor amendment to the specification for a name entered in the register of
protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Sierra Mágina (PDO))

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 of 20
March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and
designations of origin for agricultural products and food-
stuffs (1), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article
7(4) thereof,

Whereas:

As the amendment in question was not found to be
minor within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation
(EC) No 510/2006, the Commission published the appli-
cation for an amendment in the Official
Journal of the
European Union (4),
in application of the first subpara-
graph of Article 6(2) of
that Regulation. As no
statement of objection within the meaning of Article 7
of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 has been sent to the
Commission, the amendment should be approved.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(1)

In accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 9(1),
and in application of Article 17(2) of Regulation (EC) No
510/2006, the Commission has examined Spain's appli-
cation for the approval of an amendment to the specifi-
the protected designation of origin ‘Sierra
cation of
Mágina’ registered on the basis of Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 2400/96 (2), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 2107/1999 (3).

The amendment to the specification published in the Official
Journal of
the European Union regarding the name in the
Annex to this Regulation is hereby approved.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th 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, 3 October 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 93, 31.3.2006, p. 12. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 327, 18.12.1996, p. 11. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 417/2006 (OJ L 72, 11.3.2006, p. 8).

(3) OJ L 258, 5.10.1999, p. 3.

(4) OJ C 332, 30.12.2006, p. 4.

L 258/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

4.10.2007

ANNEX

Agricultural products intended for human consumption listed in Annex I to the Treaty:

Class 1.5.

Oils and fats (butter, margarine, oil, etc.)

SPAIN

Sierra Mágina (PDO)
Interest rate applied by the European Central Bank to its main refinancing operations: 4,27 % on 1 October 2007 — Euro exchange rates
Date: 2007-10-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Central Bank, euro, exchange rate, interest

C 231/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

3.10.2007

IV

(Notices)

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND
BODIES

COMMISSION

Interest rate applied by the European Central Bank to its main refinancing operations (1):

4,27 % on 1 October 2007

Euro exchange rates (2)

2 October 2007

(2007/C 231/05)

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

1,4165

RON

Romanian leu

163,92

7,4546

SKK

TRY

Slovak koruna

Turkish lira

0,69380

AUD Australian dollar

CAD

HKD

NZD

SGD

Canadian dollar

Hong Kong dollar

New Zealand dollar

Singapore dollar

3,3574

33,955

1,7126

1,5972

1,4122

10,9953

1,8619

2,0995

KRW South Korean won

1 294,40

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

9,7728

10,6324

7,3045

12 876,69

4,8239

63,544

35,3250

44,969

9,2163

1,6646

87,52

7,6965

1,9558

0,5842

27,495

15,6466

251,30

3,4528

0,7036

0,4293

3,7692

(1) Rate applied to the most recent operation carried out before the indicated day. In the case of a variable rate tender, the

interest rate is the marginal rate.

(2) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-10-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Slovenia, State aid, control of State aid, research and development

3.10.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 231/1

II

(Information)

INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

COMMISSION

Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 231/01)

Date of adoption of the decision

16.8.2007

Reference number of the aid

Member State

Region

N 177/07

Slovenia

—

Title (and/or name of the beneficiary) Davcna olajšava za raziskave in razvoj

Legal basis

Type of measure

Objective

Form of aid

Budget

Intensity

Duration

Predlog uredbe o regijski davcni olajšavi za raziskave in razvoj

Aid scheme

Research and development

Tax base reduction

Annual budget: EUR 6,7 million; Overall budget: EUR 40 million

5 %

Until 31.12.2012

Economic sectors

All sectors

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Ministrstvo za finance p.p. 644 SLO-1001 Ljubljana

Other information

—

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be
found at:

http://ec.europa.eu/community_law/state_aids/
Amendments to the Explanatory Note to Article 17 of the pan-Euro-Mediterranean protocols on rules of origin
Date: 2007-10-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Switzerland, Union for the Mediterranean, confectionery product, movement certificate, originating product, protocol to an agreement

3.10.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 231/3

Amendments to the Explanatory Note to Article 17 of the pan-Euro-Mediterranean protocols on
rules of origin

(2007/C 231/04)

The Note to Article 17 — ‘Certification of origin for the purpose of pan-Euro-Mediterranean cumulation’,
the paragraph ‘Mandatory use of the movement certificate EUR-MED’, shall be completed with the following
example:

3. Example of cumulation applied in one of the countries referred to Articles 3(1) and 4(1) when an originating

product is exported to one of the Mediterranean countries.

Swiss white chocolate in bulk (HS 1704) is imported into the Community where the chocolate bars are
formed and packed for sale. The Community originating status of chocolate (HS 1704) is obtained on the
basis of cumulation with Switzerland therefore when the chocolate is exported to Tunisia, the Community
customs administration must issue a movement certificate EUR-MED containing a statement ‘Cumulation
applied with Switzerland’.