do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5157 — Volkswagen/Scania) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, merger control, motor vehicle industry, restrictive-practice authorisation

C 237/4

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Official Journal of the European Union

16.9.2008

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5291 — Abenex Capital/Natixis Private Equity/Colbison SAS)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/07)

On 2 September 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 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 32008M5291. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5157 — Volkswagen/Scania)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/08)

On 13 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)(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 32008M5157. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5260 — BNP Paribas/Chomette/GE/Capital France Hôtel) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, financial institution, hotel industry, insurance, management, merger control, property market, restrictive-practice authorisation, shareholding

16.9.2008

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C 237/1

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(Information)

INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

COMMISSION

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5170 — E.ON/Endesa Europa/Viesgo)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/01)

On 19 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)(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 32008M5170. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5260 — BNP Paribas/Chomette/GE/Capital France Hôtel)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/02)

On 21 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 32008M5260. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5068 — L'Oréal/YSL Beauté) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cosmetics industry, economic concentration, luxury products industry, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation

C 237/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

16.9.2008

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5191 — Perstorp/LyondellBasell/Rhodia Diisocyanates Businesses)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/03)

On 28 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 32008M5191. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5068 — L'Oréal/YSL Beauté)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/04)

On 17 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)(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 32008M5068. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5009 — Randstad/Vedior) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, merger control, personnel administration, restrictive-practice authorisation

16.9.2008

EN

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C 237/3

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5009 — Randstad/Vedior)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/05)

On 17 April 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 32008M5009. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.4667 — Syral/Tate & Lyle Assets)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/06)

On 23 August 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 32007M4667. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
2008/735/EC: Commission Decision of 16 September 2008 appointing a Commission representative to the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Commission, European Medicines Agency, appointment of staff, board of directors, job description

17.9.2008

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 16 September 2008

appointing a Commission representative to the Management Board of the European Medicines
Agency

(2008/735/EC)

the Director of
Directorate.

the Public Health and Risk Assessment

The alternate representative shall be the person occupying the
following position and exercising the following functions:

(b) Head of Unit ‘Health Strategy and Health Systems’, which
the functions of determining and formulating
includes
public health policies and actions,
including in the fields
of pharmaceuticals, and providing overall direction of the
activities within the unit on the basis of
the work
programme of
for Health and
the Directorate General
Consumers and/or Directorate Public Health and Risk
Assessment.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply to the persons occupying, including
on a temporary basis, the positions referred to in Article 1 at
the date of adoption of this Decision, or to any successor of
those persons in those positions.

Article 3

The Director-General of the Directorate General for Health and
Consumers shall inform the President of the Management Board
and the Director of the Agency of the names of the persons
occupying the positions referred to in Article 1, and any
changes thereof.

Done at Brussels, 16 September 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down
Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of
medicinal products for human and veterinary use and estab­
lishing a European Medicines Agency (1), and in particular
Article 65 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Pursuant to Article 65 of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004,
the Management Board of
the European Medicines
Agency (hereinafter the Agency) is to include two repre­
sentatives of the Commission.

of

reallocation

competences within

the
Due
to
Commission it
is necessary to appoint one new
member of the Management Board of the Agency from
the Directorate General for Health and Consumers and
an alternate who will replace the member in his absence
and vote on his behalf,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The representative of
the Commission to the Management
Board of the European Medicines Agency shall be the person
occupying the following position and exercising the following
functions:

(a) Principal adviser with special

in public health,
advising the Director-General of Directorate General
for
Health and Consumers on health strategy and supporting

interest

(1) OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5191 — Perstorp/LyondellBasell/Rhodia Diisocyanates Businesses) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: chemical industry, economic concentration, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation

C 237/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

16.9.2008

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5191 — Perstorp/LyondellBasell/Rhodia Diisocyanates Businesses)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/03)

On 28 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 32008M5191. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5068 — L'Oréal/YSL Beauté)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/04)

On 17 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)(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 32008M5068. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Final report of the Hearing Officer in Case COMP/M.4854 — TomTom/Tele Atlas (Pursuant to Articles 15 and 16 of Commission Decision 2001/462/EC, ECSC of 23 May 2001 on the terms of reference of Hearing Officers in certain competition proceedings — OJ L 162, 19.6.2001, p. 21 )
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: audit, browser, cartography, competition law, database, economic concentration, merger control, report, restrictive-practice authorisation

16.9.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 237/7

Final report of the Hearing Officer in Case COMP/M.4854 — TomTom/Tele Atlas

(Pursuant to Articles 15 and 16 of Commission Decision 2001/462/EC, ECSC of 23 May 2001 on the terms of
reference of Hearing Officers in certain competition proceedings — OJ L 162, 19.6.2001, p. 21)

(2008/C 237/11)

On 22 October 2007, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to
Article 4 and following a referral pursuant to Article 4(5) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by
which TomTom NV (‘TomTom’) would acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regu-
lation control of the whole of Tele Atlas NV (‘Tele Atlas’) by way of a public bid.

After examination of the notification, the Commission concluded on 28 November 2007 that the notified
operation fell within the scope of the Merger Regulation and that it raised serious doubts as to its
compatibility with the common market and the EEA Agreement. The Commission therefore initiated
proceedings in accordance with Article 6(1)(c) of the Merger Regulation.

Access to key documents was provided to the notifying party on 3 and 12 December 2007, in accordance
with paragraph 45 of DG Competition's Best Practices on the conduct of EC merger control proceedings.

The Commission sent a Statement of Objections (‘SO’) to TomTom on 29 February 2008. Tele Atlas also
received a copy of the SO. TomTom was granted access to file upon issuance of the SO. TomTom and
Tele Atlas replied jointly on 17 March 2008. The parties did not request a formal oral hearing.

I granted requests from eight undertakings to be admitted to the proceedings as interested third parties
within the meaning of Article 18(4) of the Merger Regulation and Article 11(c) of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 802/2004. TomTom was granted access to non-confidential versions of written comments
submitted by four of the third parties.

As a result of the in-depth investigation, the Commission has concluded that the proposed concentration
does not significantly impede effective competition in the common market or a substantial part of it.

In the light of the above, I consider that the rights to be heard in the present proceeding have been
respected.

Brussels, 6 May 2008.

Karen WILLIAMS

(1) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 897/2008 of 16 September 2008 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

17.9.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 248/1

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

I

REGULATIONS

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 897/2008

of 16 September 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 17 September 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 16 September 2008.

For the Commission

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

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 350, 31.12.2007, p. 1.

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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
TR
ZZ

EG
MK
TR
ZZ

TR
ZZ

AR
TR
UY
ZA
ZZ

IL
TR
US
ZZ

AR
AU
BR
CL
CN
NZ
US
ZA
ZZ

AR
CN
TR
ZA
ZZ

TR
US
ZZ

IL
TR
XS
ZZ

28,9
68,0
48,5

162,5
43,3
95,0
100,3

90,1
90,1

69,5
104,3
47,5
88,3
77,4

248,7
101,8
110,9
153,8

92,1
195,4
74,2
109,7
78,4
107,1
100,5
80,5
104,7

76,1
90,5
139,0
89,8
98,9

142,7
150,3
146,5

122,2
82,5
62,1
88,9

(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’.
Withdrawal of notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.5252 — Hombergh-De Pundert/RSDB) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, holding company, investment company, merger control, printing, provision of services

C 237/20

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

16.9.2008

PROCEDURES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPETITION
POLICY

COMMISSION

Withdrawal of notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.5252 — Hombergh-De Pundert/RSDB)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 237/17)

(Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004)

On 5 August 2008, the Commission of the European Communities received notification of a proposed
concentration between Hombergh-De Pundert and RSDB. On 8 September 2008, the notifying parties
informed the Commission that they withdrew their notification.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 901/2008 of 16 September 2008 suspending the application of import duties on certain quantities of industrial sugar for the 2008/2009 marketing year
Date: 2008-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, import licence, import policy, sugar, sugar industry

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17.9.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 901/2008

of 16 September 2008

suspending the application of import duties on certain quantities of industrial sugar for the
2008/2009 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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), and in particular
Article 142 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

corresponding to the world price, a complete suspension
of import duties on sugar intended for the production of
those products is in the Community’s interest for the
2008/2009 marketing year, for a quantity corresponding
to half of its industrial sugar needs.

The quantities of
2008/2009 marketing year
accordingly.

industrial

import

the
sugar
should therefore be set

for

The Management Committee for the Common Organisa­
tion of Agricultural Markets has not delivered an opinion
within the time limit set by its Chair,

(1)

(2)

the

to guarantee

Under Article 142 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, in
order
the
production of the products referred to in Article 62(2)
of
in
whole or in part, the application of import duties for
certain quantities of sugar.

the Commission may suspend,

supplies necessary for

that Regulation,

for

the

2006/2007,

Articles 30 to 30d of Commission Regulation (EC) No
950/2006 of 28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules of
and
application
2008/2009 marketing years for the import and refining
of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and prefer­
ential agreements (2) laid down detailed rules of appli­
cation for importing the industrial sugar referred to in
Article 62(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.

2007/2008

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2008/2009 marketing year, the application of import
duties shall be entirely suspended for a quantity of 400 000
tonnes of industrial sugar falling within CN code 1701 and
bearing the order number 09.4390,
in accordance with
Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

(3)

In order to ensure that the supplies necessary for the
production of the products referred to in Article 62(2)
of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 are available at a price

It shall apply from 1 October 2008.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 September 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1.