do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5231 — Bain Capital/D&M) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: audiovisual equipment, disclosure of information, economic concentration, electronics industry, investment, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation

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(Information)

INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

COMMISSION

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5231 — Bain Capital/D&M)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/01)

On 13 August 2008, 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 32008M5231. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5210 — Siemens/Ortner/JV)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/02)

On 31 July 2008, 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 German 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 32008M5210. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 847/2008 of 28 August 2008 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1060/2007
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 847/2008

of 28 August 2008

fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to
tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1060/2007

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

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
the third subparagraph of
Article 33(2) thereof,

(b) of

Whereas:

(1)

(EC) No

1060/2007

Commission Regulation
of
14 September 2007 opening a standing invitation to
tender for the resale for export of sugar held by the
intervention agencies of Belgium, the Czech Republic,
Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and
Spain,
Sweden (2) requires the issuing of partial
invitations to
tender.

Ireland,

to Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No
Pursuant
the
1060/2007 and following an examination of
invitation
tenders submitted in response to the partial
to tender ending on 27 August 2008, it is appropriate
to fix a maximum export refund for that partial
invi­
tation 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 27 August 2008,
the maximum export
referred
refund for
to in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2007 shall be
307,08 EUR/t.

the product

This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 August 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 28 August 2008.

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
L 283,
Commission Regulation
27.10.2007, p. 1). Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 will be replaced
by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) as
from 1 October 2008.

(EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ

(2) OJ L 242, 15.9.2007, p. 8. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 148/2008 (OJ L 46, 21.2.2008,
p. 9).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5114 — Pernod Ricard/V&S) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: alcoholic beverage, disclosure of information, distributive trades, economic concentration, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation

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Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5114 — Pernod Ricard/V&S)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/05)

On 17 July 2008, 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) in conjunction with Article 6(2)
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 32008M5114. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5121 — News Corp/Premiere) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: audiovisual industry, disclosure of information, economic concentration, leisure, merger control, pay television, restrictive-practice authorisation

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Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5010 — Berkshire Hathaway/Munich Re/GAUM)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/03)

On 14 July 2008, 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 32008M5010. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5121 — News Corp/Premiere)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/04)

On 25 June 2008, 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) in conjunction with Article 6(2)
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 32008M5121. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5210 — Siemens/Ortner/JV) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building industry, civil engineering, disclosure of information, economic concentration, energy industry, merger control, public health, restrictive-practice authorisation, shareholding, technology

28.8.2008

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II

(Information)

INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

COMMISSION

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5231 — Bain Capital/D&M)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/01)

On 13 August 2008, 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 32008M5231. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5210 — Siemens/Ortner/JV)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/02)

On 31 July 2008, 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 German 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 32008M5210. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 846/2008 of 28 August 2008 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 900/2007
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, white sugar

29.8.2008

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 846/2008

of 28 August 2008

fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar in the framework of the standing invitation to
tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 900/2007

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
the
20 February 2006 on the common organisation of
markets in the sugar sector (1), and in particular the second
subparagraph and point
the third subparagraph of
Article 33(2) thereof,

(b) of

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 900/2007 of 27 July
2007 on a standing invitation to tender to determine
refunds on exports of white sugar for the 2007/08
marketing year (2) requires the issuing of partial
invi­
tations to tender.

in response to the partial invitation to tender ending on
28 August 2008,
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 28 August 2008,
referred
refund for
the maximum export
to in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 900/2007 shall be
21,957 EUR/100 kg.

the product

(2)

Pursuant to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 900/2007
and following an examination of the tenders submitted

This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 August 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 28 August 2008.

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
L 283,
Commission Regulation
27.10.2007, p. 1). Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 will be replaced
by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) as
from 1 October 2008.

(EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ

(2) OJ L 196, 28.7.2007, p. 26. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 148/2008 by Commission Regu­
lation (OJ L 46, 21.2.2008, p. 9).
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

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(Notices)

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND
BODIES

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

27 August 2008

(2008/C 219/06)

1 euro =

Currency

Exchange rate

Currency

Exchange rate

USD

JPY

DKK

GBP

SEK

CHF

ISK

NOK

BGN

CZK

EEK

HUF

LTL

LVL

PLN

RON

SKK

US dollar

Japanese yen

Danish krone

Pound sterling

Swedish krona

Swiss franc

Iceland króna

Norwegian krone

Bulgarian lev

Czech koruna

Estonian kroon

Hungarian forint

Lithuanian litas

Latvian lats

Polish zloty

Romanian leu

Slovak koruna

1,4767

TRY

Turkish lira

160,98

AUD Australian dollar

7,4589

0,7997

9,3877

1,6132

CAD

HKD

NZD

SGD

Canadian dollar

Hong Kong dollar

New Zealand dollar

Singapore dollar

1,7595

1,7114

1,5417

11,53

2,103

2,0914

121,69

KRW South Korean won

1 597,42

7,926

1,9558

24,533

15,6466

ZAR

CNY

HRK

IDR

South African rand

Chinese yuan renminbi

Croatian kuna

Indonesian rupiah

235,71

MYR Malaysian ringgit

3,4528

0,7035

3,327

3,5475

PHP

RUB

THB

BRL

Philippine peso

Russian rouble

Thai baht

Brazilian real

30,315

MXN Mexican peso

11,4775

10,0977

7,1644

13 526,57

4,9898

67,34

36,295

50,274

2,3959

14,9634

(1) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Commission notice pursuant to Article 4(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 — Modification by Italy of the public service obligation in respect of the scheduled air services on the following routes: Trapani-Rome and vice versa , Trapani-Cagliari and vice versa , Trapani-Bari and vice versa , and Trapani-Milan and vice versa
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, air transport, airline, services of general interest

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Commission notice pursuant to Article 4(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92

Modification by Italy of the public service obligation in respect of the scheduled air services on the
following routes: Trapani-Rome and vice versa, Trapani-Cagliari and vice versa, Trapani-Bari and vice
versa, and Trapani-Milan and vice versa

(2008/C 219/19)

Pursuant to Article 4(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92, the Italian Government has decided to
amend the public service obligations in respect of scheduled air services on the routes Trapani-Rome and
vice versa, Trapani-Cagliari and vice versa, Trapani-Bari and vice versa, and Trapani-Milan and vice versa, as
published in the OJ C 150, 28.6.2006, OJ C 141, 26.6.2007 and OJ C 121, 17.5.2008.

The public service obligations in respect of the route Trapani-Cagliari and vice versa are repealed, and point 1
of the notice published in the OJ C 150, 28.6.2006 is amended as follows:

Routes concerned:

Trapani-Rome and vice versa,

Trapani-Bari and vice versa,

Trapani-Rome and vice versa.

For Rome and Milan, the airports of Rome Fiumicino and Milano Linate are meant respectively.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5010 — Berkshire Hathaway/Munich Re/GAUM) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: disclosure of information, economic concentration, holding company, insurance, merger control, reinsurance, restrictive-practice authorisation

C 219/2

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28.8.2008

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5010 — Berkshire Hathaway/Munich Re/GAUM)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/03)

On 14 July 2008, 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 32008M5010. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5121 — News Corp/Premiere)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/04)

On 25 June 2008, 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) in conjunction with Article 6(2)
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 32008M5121. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 843/2008 of 28 August 2008 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

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

I

REGULATIONS

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 843/2008

of 28 August 2008

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Whereas:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri­
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri­
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1),

Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 lays down, pursuant to the
outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations,
the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values
for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and
periods stipulated in Annex XV, Part A thereto,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007
of 21 December 2007 laying down implementing rules for
Council Regulations (EC) No 2200/96, (EC) No 2201/96 and
(EC) No 1182/2007 in the fruit and vegetable sector (2), and in
particular Article 138(1) thereof,

The standard import values referred to in Article 138 of Regu­
lation (EC) No 1580/2007 are fixed in the Annex hereto.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 August 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 28 August 2008.

For the Commission

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

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 510/2008 (OJ L 149, 7.6.2008,
p. 61).

(2) OJ L 350, 31.12.2007, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu­

lation (EC) No 590/2008 (OJ L 163, 24.6.2008, p. 24).

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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 50 10

0806 10 10

0808 10 80

0808 20 50

0809 30

0809 40 05

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

MK
XS
ZZ

JO
MK
TR
ZZ

TR
ZZ

AR
CL
UY
ZA
ZZ

EG
TR
ZZ

AR
BR
CL
CN
NZ
US
ZA
ZZ

AR
CN
TR
ZA
ZZ

TR
ZZ

IL
MK
TR
XS
ZZ

22,9
22,4
22,7

162,5
21,6
128,2
104,1

93,7
93,7

61,4
65,6
66,2
73,8
66,8

190,0
113,6
151,8

89,1
96,4
91,6
74,3
107,0
113,4
85,3
93,9

131,3
53,0
147,5
97,8
107,4

141,0
141,0

129,9
62,1
107,3
62,1
90,4

(1) Nomenclature of countries laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19). Code ‘ZZ’ stands

for ‘of other origin’.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.5303 — Arques/SHC) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, exchange of information, industrial restructuring, information technology, merger control, telecommunications

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28.8.2008

PROCEDURES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPETITION
POLICY

COMMISSION

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.5303 — Arques/SHC)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 219/23)

1.
On 21 August 2008, 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 Arques Industries AG
(‘Arques’, Germany) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the
whole of the undertaking SHC GmbH & Co. KG (‘SHC’, Germany), which is currently controlled by the
undertaking Siemens AG (‘Siemens’, Germany), by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— for Arques and its affiliated companies: restructuring of companies; wholesale and resale of information
technology products, telecommunication products and home-media products, assembling of information
technology products,

— for SHC: development, manufacturing and distribution of landline and Voice over IP-phones, broad-band

devices (primarily routers and gateways), home-media products (set-top boxes).

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 ((32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post, under
reference number COMP/M.5303 — Arques/SHC, 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.