do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Case T-221/00: Order of the Court of First Instance (Sixth Chamber) of 14 October 2008 — Casinò municipale di Venezia v Commission
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Commission, Italy, gaming establishment, trade-mark law

20.12.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 327/41

Decision of the Examiner: Refusal of registration.

Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal.

Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC)
No 40/94 (1) in that the trade mark applied for has the neces-
sary minimum distinctive character.

Order of the Court of First Instance of 11 September 2008
— Italy v Commission

(Case T-126/06) (1)

(2008/C 327/74)

Language of the case: Italian

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the

Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).

The President of the Second Chamber has ordered that the case
be removed from the register.

(1) OJ C 143, 17.6.2006.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Sixth Chamber) of
14 October 2008 — Casinò municipale di Venezia v
Commission

(Case T-221/00) (1)

(2008/C 327/72)

Language of the case: Italian

The President of the Court of First Instance (Sixth Chamber,
Extended Composition) has ordered that the case be removed
from the register.

Order of the Court of First Instance of 4 November 2008
— Omya v Commission

(Case T-275/06) (1)

(2008/C 327/75)

Language of the case: English

The President of the Second Chamber has ordered that the case
be removed from the register.

(1) OJ C 316, 4.11.2000.

(1) OJ C 294, 2.12.2006.

Order of the Court of First Instance of 13 October 2008 —
v
Azivo Algemeen

Volharding

Ziekenfonds De
Commission

Order of the Court of First Instance of 5 November 2008
— Xinhui Alida Polythene v Council

(Case T-84/06) (1)

(2008/C 327/73)

(Case T-364/06) (1)

(2008/C 327/76)

Language of the case: Dutch

Language of the case: English

The President of the Third Chamber has ordered that the case
be removed from the register.

The President of the First Chamber has ordered that the case be
removed from the register.

(1) OJ C 108, 6.5.2006.

(1) OJ C 20, 27.1.2007.
Case C-71/08: Order of the President of the Eighth Chamber of the Court of 14 October 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Czech Republic
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Czechia, European Commission, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, financial instrument, financial market, national implementing measure

C 6/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

10.1.2009

Order of the President of the Court of 26 September 2008
— Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom
of Belgium

Order of the President of the Court of 16 October 2008 —
Commission of the European Communities v Republic of
Estonia

(Case C-187/06) (1)

(2009/C 6/31)

Language of the case: French

(Case C-68/08) (1)

(2009/C 6/34)

Language of the case: Estonian

The President of the Grand Chamber of the Court has ordered
that the case be removed from the register.

The President of
removed from the register.

the Court has ordered that

the case be

(1) OJ C 154, 1.7.2008.

(1) OJ C 92, 12.4.2008.

Order of the President of the Eighth Chamber of the Court
of 8 October 2008 — Cain Cellars,
Inc. v Office for
Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
Designs)

Order of the President of the Eighth Chamber of the Court
the European
of 14 October 2008 — Commission of

Communities v Czech Republic

(Case C-508/07 P) (1)

(2009/C 6/32)

Language of the case: German

The President of the Eighth Chamber of the Court has ordered
that the case be removed from the register.

(Case C-71/08) (1)

(2009/C 6/35)

Language of the case: Czech

The President of the Eighth Chamber has ordered that the case
be removed from the register.

(1) OJ C 22, 26.1.2008.

(1) OJ C 92, 12.4.2008.

Order of the President of the Court of 3 October 2008 —
Commission of the European Communities v Republic of
Malta

(Case C-11/08) (1)

(2009/C 6/33)

Language of the case: English

The President of
removed from the register.

the Court has ordered that

the case be

(1) OJ C 51, 23.2.2008.

Order of the President of the Court of 28 October 2008 —
Commission of the European Communities v Republic of
Hungary

(Case C-270/08) (1)

(2009/C 6/36)

Language of the case: Hungarian

The President of
removed from the register.

the Court has ordered that

the case be

(1) OJ C 209, 15.8.2008.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1012/2008 of 14 October 2008 establishing a prohibition of fishing for cod in Baltic Sea subdivisions 25-32 (EC waters) by vessels flying the flag of Poland
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU waters, Poland, catch quota, fishing regulations, fishing rights, sea fish, ship's flag

17.10.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 276/23

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1012/2008

of 14 October 2008

establishing a prohibition of fishing for cod in Baltic Sea subdivisions 25-32 (EC waters) by vessels
flying the flag of Poland

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

It is therefore necessary to prohibit fishing for that stock
and its retention on board, transhipment and landing,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of
20 December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploi­
tation of
the Common Fisheries
Policy (1), and in particular Article 26(4) thereof,

resources under

fisheries

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of
12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to
common fisheries policy (2), and in particular Article 21(3)
thereof,

Whereas:

Article 1

Quota exhaustion

The fishing quota allocated to the Member State referred to in
the Annex to this Regulation for the stock referred to therein
for 2008 shall be deemed to be exhausted from the date set out
in that Annex.

Article 2

Prohibitions

(1)

(2)

Council Regulation (EC) No 1404/2007 of 26 November
2007 fixing the fishing opportunities and associated
fish
conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of
stocks applicable in the Baltic Sea for 2008 (3),
lays
down quotas for 2008.

Fishing for the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation
by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State
referred to therein shall be prohibited from the date set out in
that Annex. It shall be prohibited to retain on board, tranship
or land such stock caught by those vessels after that date.

to

the

information

the
received
According
Commission, catches of
the stock referred to in the
Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of
or registered in the Member State referred to therein
have exhausted the quota allocated for 2008.

by

Article 3

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of 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, 14 October 2008.

For the Commission

Fokion FOTIADIS
Director-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

(1) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59.
(2) OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 312, 30.11.2007, p. 1.

L 276/24

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

17.10.2008

No

Member State

Stock

Species

Zone

Date

ANNEX

01/BAL

POL

COD/3DX32.

Cod (Gadus morhua)

Community waters of Subdivisions 25-32

26.9.2008
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5120 — ArcelorMittal/Gonvarri/SSC Brazil) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, iron and steel industry, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation

14.10.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 261/5

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5120 — ArcelorMittal/Gonvarri/SSC Brazil)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 261/02)

On 14 May 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 32008M5120. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5048 — Ingersoll Rand/Trane)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 261/03)

On 10 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)(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 32008M5048. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 997/2008 of 14 October 2008 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit

15.10.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 273/1

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

I

REGULATIONS

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 997/2008

of 14 October 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 15 October 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 14 October 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.

L 273/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

15.10.2008

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

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

MA
MK
TR
ZZ

MK
TR
ZZ

TR
ZZ

AR
TR
UY
ZA
ZZ

BR
TR
US
ZZ

AR
CL
CN
MK
NZ
US
ZA
ZZ

CN
TR
ZA
ZZ

76,4
52,8
106,4
78,5

81,9
141,7
111,8

140,3
140,3

75,7
98,0
95,7
84,4
88,5

224,6
91,6
224,7
180,3

67,2
71,3
53,8
35,3
88,4
104,9
79,5
71,5

58,4
76,2
98,3
77,6

(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’.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate

14.10.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 261/7

IV

(Notices)

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND
BODIES

COMMISSION

Euro exchange rates (1)

13 October 2008

(2008/C 261/05)

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

1,3639

TRY

Turkish lira

136,63

AUD Australian dollar

7,4526

0,7854

9,6689

1,5416

CAD

HKD

NZD

SGD

Canadian dollar

Hong Kong dollar

New Zealand dollar

Singapore dollar

1,9216

2,032

1,5903

10,587

2,2551

2,0043

305

KRW South Korean won

1 680,32

8,4285

1,9558

24,653

15,6466

ZAR

CNY

HRK

IDR

South African rand

Chinese yuan renminbi

Croatian kuna

Indonesian rupiah

253

MYR Malaysian ringgit

3,4528

0,7092

3,5576

3,7827

PHP

RUB

THB

BRL

Philippine peso

Russian rouble

Thai baht

Brazilian real

30,56

MXN Mexican peso

12,6035

9,3097

7,142

13 393,5

4,7757

64,24

35,6393

46,707

3,022

17,2407

(1) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.5264 — Invitrogen/Applied Biosystems) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: biology, biotechnology, economic concentration, exchange of information, merger control, research and development

C 261/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

14.10.2008

PROCEDURES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPETITION
POLICY

COMMISSION

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.5264 — Invitrogen/Applied Biosystems)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 261/08)

1.
On 7 October 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 Invitrogen Corporation
(‘Invitrogen’, United States of America) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regu-
lation control of the whole of the undertaking Applied Biosystems Inc. (‘Applied Biosystems’, United States
of America) by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— for Invitrogen: supply of reagents, sera, cell and tissue culture media for academic research, the life

science industry and commercial markets,

— for Applied Biosystems: supply of instrument-based systems, consumables, software and services for

academic research, the life science industry and commercial markets.

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.5264 — Invitrogen/Applied Biosystems, 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.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5048 — Ingersoll Rand/Trane) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, merger control, restrictive-practice authorisation, thermal equipment

14.10.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 261/5

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5120 — ArcelorMittal/Gonvarri/SSC Brazil)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 261/02)

On 14 May 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 32008M5120. EUR-Lex is the

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5048 — Ingersoll Rand/Trane)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 261/03)

On 10 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)(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 32008M5048. EUR-Lex is the

on-line access to European law (http://eur-lex.europa.eu).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5039 — Brose Fahrzeugteile/Continental Assets) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, merger control, motor vehicle industry, restrictive-practice authorisation, vehicle parts

C 261/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

14.10.2008

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.5039 — Brose Fahrzeugteile/Continental Assets)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/C 261/04)

On 7 March 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 32008M5039. EUR-Lex is the

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