Communication from the Minister for Economic Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the basis of Article 3(2) of Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons
Date: 2008-12-24
Institutions: Netherlands
Subjects: Netherlands, energy site, exchange of information, exploitation of resources, hydrocarbon, mineral prospecting, petroleum exploration

C 329/26

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.12.2008

Communication from the Minister for Economic Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the
basis of Article 3(2) of Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the
conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of
hydrocarbons

(2008/C 329/12)

The Minister for Economic Affairs hereby gives notice that an application has been received for authorisation
to prospect for hydrocarbons in an area delimited by the area in respect of which authorisations to prospect
‘Andel IV’ (Government Gazette (Staatscourant) No 113 of 14 June 2006),
‘Andel III’ (Government Gazette
(Staatscourant) No 113 of 14 June 2006) and ‘Utrecht’ (Government Gazette (Staatscourant) No 85 of 3 May
2007), have been granted, the straight line formed by points A and B between point A and where this line
intersects with the area covered by the Utrecht authorisation to prospect, the straight lines between points A,
B, C, D, E, F, G and H, and the straight line between points G and H from point H to where this line inter-
sects with the area covered by the ‘Andel IV’ authorisation to prospect. The area in respect of which
authorisation to prospect ‘Waalwijk’ (Government Gazette (Staatscourant) No 8 of 11 January 2006) has
been granted is not included in the area of this application.

The coordinates of the area in question are as follows:

Vertex

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

X

153329,000

162400,000

186939,000

186939,000

151430,000

130074,000

115338,000

115338,000

Y

419368,000

419368,000

390264,000

375600,000

375600,000

390264,000

390264,000

413290,000

The coordinates are expressed in accordance with the national triangulation system (Rijksdriehoeksmeting
or ‘RD’).

The area in respect of which the application is made has a surface area of 2 137 km2.

With reference to the Directive mentioned in the introduction and Article 15 of
the Mining Act
(Mijnbouwwet) (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees (Staatsblad) 2002, No 542), the Minister for Economic Affairs
hereby invites interested parties to submit a competing application for authorisation to prospect for hydro-
carbons in the area in question.

The Minister for Economic Affairs is the competent authority for the granting of authorisations. The criteria,
conditions and requirements referred to in Articles 5(1), 5(2) and 6(2) of the abovementioned Directive are
set out in the Mining Act (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees 2002, No 542).

Applications may be submitted during the 13 weeks following the publication of this notice in the Official
Journal of the European Union and should be sent to:

De Minister van Economische Zaken
ter attentie van J.C. De Groot, directeur Energiemarkt
ALP/562
Postbus 20101
2500 EC Den Haag
Nederland

Applications received after this period will not be considered.

A decision on the applications will be taken not later than 12 months after this period has expired.

Further information can be obtained from the following telephone number: (31-70) 379 77 62 (contact
person: E.J. Hoppel).