do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.5654 — Brookfield/BBI) — Candidate case for simplified procedure Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2009-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, energy distribution, exchange of information, financial institution, financial management, investment, merger control, property market, transport infrastructure








C_2009249EN.01002001.xml










17.10.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 249/20





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case COMP/M.5654 — Brookfield/BBI)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
2009/C 249/10






1.


On 9 October 2009, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Brookfield Asset management Inc (‘Brookfield’, Canada) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Regulation indirect control, through a limited partnership vehicle called Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (‘BIP’), of the whole of Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Limited (‘BBIL’) and Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Trust (‘BBIT’) collectively forming Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (‘BBI’, Australia) by way of purchase of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






—


for Brookfield: global asset manager investing in property, power and other infrastructure assets,










—


for BBI: infrastructure fund managing an international portfolio of infrastructure assets principally in the transport sector and the energy distribution and transmission sector.














3.


On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. However, the final decision on this point is reserved. Pursuant to the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in the Notice.










4.


The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed 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 22964301 or 22967244) or by post, under reference number COMP/M.5654 — Brookfield/BBI, to the following address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË










(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.

(2)  OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.
Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
Date: 2009-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: South Korea, anti-dumping duty, anti-dumping legislation, import, man-made fibre, originating product








C_2009249EN.01001801.xml










17.10.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 249/18





Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
2009/C 249/08
1.   As provided for in Article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (1), the Commission gives notice that, unless a review is initiated in accordance with the following procedure, the anti-dumping measures mentioned below will expire on the date mentioned in the table below.
2.   Procedure

Community producers may lodge a written request for a review. This request must contain sufficient evidence that the expiry of the measures would be likely to result in a continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury.
Should the Commission decide to review the measures concerned, importers, exporters, representatives of the exporting country and Community producers will then be provided with the opportunity to amplify, rebut or comment on the matters set out in the review request.
3.   Time limit

Community producers may submit a written request for a review on the above basis, to reach the European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade (Unit H-1), N-105 04/92, B-1049 Brussels (2) at any time from the date of the publication of the present notice but no later than three months before the date mentioned in the table below.
4.   This notice is published in accordance with Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96.









Product


Country(ies) of origin or exportation


Measures


Reference


Date of expiry




Polyester staple fibres


Republic of Korea


Anti-dumping duty


Council Regulation (EC) No 2852/2000 (OJ L 332, 28.12.2000, p. 17) as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 412/2009 (OJ L 125, 21.5.2009, p. 1)


18.3.2010






(1)  OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1.

(2)  Fax +32 22956505.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2009-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate








C_2009249EN.01000701.xml










17.10.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 249/7





Euro exchange rates (1)

16 October 2009
2009/C 249/05

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,4869




JPY


Japanese yen


135,60




DKK


Danish krone


7,4443




GBP


Pound sterling


0,91175




SEK


Swedish krona


10,3907




CHF


Swiss franc


1,5180




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


8,3500




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558




CZK


Czech koruna


25,771




EEK


Estonian kroon


15,6466




HUF


Hungarian forint


267,85




LTL


Lithuanian litas


3,4528




LVL


Latvian lats


0,7077




PLN


Polish zloty


4,2133




RON


Romanian leu


4,2882




TRY


Turkish lira


2,1768




AUD


Australian dollar


1,6213




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,5458




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


11,5235




NZD


New Zealand dollar


2,0138




SGD


Singapore dollar


2,0762




KRW


South Korean won


1 733,17




ZAR


South African rand


10,9476




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


10,1508




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,2445




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


13 974,08




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


5,0131




PHP


Philippine peso


69,384




RUB


Russian rouble


43,6990




THB


Thai baht


49,729




BRL


Brazilian real


2,5562




MXN


Mexican peso


19,5379




INR


Indian rupee


68,8430






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 290/2009 of the European Central Bank of 31 March 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 63/2002 (ECB/2001/18) concerning statistics on interest rates applied by monetary financial institutions to deposits and loans vis-à-vis households and non-financial corporations (ECB/2009/7) ( OJ L 94, 8.4.2009 )
Date: 2009-10-17
Institutions: European Central Bank
Subjects: bank deposit, credit, data collection, financial institution, interest, statistics




L_2009273EN.01001901.xml










17.10.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 273/19







Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 290/2009 of the European Central Bank of 31 March 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 63/2002 (ECB/2001/18) concerning statistics on interest rates applied by monetary financial institutions to deposits and loans vis-à-vis households and non-financial corporations (ECB/2009/7)
(
Official Journal of the European Union L 94 of 8 April 2009
)

On page 77, Annex I(1), replace the footnote to paragraph 7 of Section III of Part 1 with the following:







‘(*)


i.e. the sum of the intra-stratum variances defined as 

 is to be substantially lower than the total variance of the reporting population defined as 

, where h indicates each stratum, xi the interest rate for institution i, 

 the simple average interest rate of stratum h, n the total number of institutions in the sample and 

 the simple average of interest rates of all institutions in the sample.’;





on page 78, Annex II, paragraph 2 of Part 1(I), replace the formula with the following:

               ‘
               


               ’;
on page 96, Annex III, footnote 1:
for:







‘(1)





, with D as the maximum random error, zα/2 as the factor computed from the normal distribution or any suitable distribution according to the structure of the data (e.g. t-distribution) assuming a confidence level of 1-α, var(

) as the variance of the estimator of parameter θ, and vâr(

) as the estimated variance of the estimator of parameter .’





read:







‘(1)





, with D as the maximum random error, zα/2 as the factor computed from the normal distribution or any suitable distribution according to the structure of the data (e.g. t-distribution) assuming a confidence level of 1-α, var(

) as the variance of the estimator of parameter θ, and vâr(

) as the estimated variance of the estimator of parameter θ.’
Communication from the Commission on the final percentage take-up for 2009 of rice import quotas provided for by Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007
Date: 2009-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, import, originating product, rice, tariff quota








C_2009249EN.01000401.xml










17.10.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 249/4





Communication from the Commission on the final percentage take-up for 2009 of rice import quotas provided for by Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007
2009/C 249/03
The final percentage take-up of each quota provided for in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007 of 21 December 2007 opening and providing for the administration in 2008 and 2009 of import quotas for rice originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP States) forming part of the Cariforum region and the overseas countries and territories (OCT) (1) for 2009 is established as follows:







Origin/product


Order number


Final percentage take-up of the quota for 2009




States forming part of the Cariforum region (Article 1(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007)






—


codes under CN 1006, except CN code 1006 10 10






09.4220


69,37 %




OCTs (Article 1(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007)






—


CN code 1006






 


 










(a)


Netherlands Antilles and Aruba






09.4189


16,2 %










(b)


Least-developed OCTs






09.4190


0 %






(1)  OJ L 348, 31.12.2007, p. 155.
Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
Date: 2009-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: China, Saudi Arabia, anti-dumping duty, anti-dumping legislation, import, man-made fibre, originating product








C_2009249EN.01001901.xml










17.10.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 249/19





Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
2009/C 249/09
1.   As provided for in Article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (1), the Commission gives notice that, unless a review is initiated in accordance with the following procedure, the anti-dumping measures mentioned below will expire on the date mentioned in the table below.
2.   Procedure

Community producers may lodge a written request for a review. This request must contain sufficient evidence that the expiry of the measures would be likely to result in a continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury.
Should the Commission decide to review the measures concerned, importers, exporters, representatives of the exporting country and Community producers will then be provided with the opportunity to amplify, rebut or comment on the matters set out in the review request.
3.   Time limit

Community producers may submit a written request for a review on the above basis, to reach the European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade (Unit H-1), N-105 04/92, B-1049 Brussels (2) at any time from the date of the publication of the present notice but no later than three months before the date mentioned in the table below.
4.   This notice is published in accordance with Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96.









Product


Country(ies) of origin or exportation


Measures


Reference


Date of expiry




Polyester staple fibres


People's Republic of China
S. Arabia


Anti-dumping duty


Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2005 (OJ L 71, 17.3.2005, p. 1) as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 412/2009 (OJ L 125, 21.5.2009, p. 1)


18.3.2010






(1)  OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1.

(2)  Fax +32 22956505.
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: 2009-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Northern Ireland, State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid, environmental protection, renewable energy








C_2009249EN.01000301.xml










17.10.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 249/3





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)
2009/C 249/02






Date of adoption of the decision


29.7.2009




Reference number of State Aid


N 22/09




Member State


United Kingdom




Region


Northern Ireland




Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)


The Renewables Obligation — Northern Ireland




Legal basis


Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 as amended by Energy (Amendment) Order 2009; Renewables Obligation Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 as amended




Type of measure


Aid scheme




Objective


Environmental protection




Form of aid


Transactions not on market terms




Budget


Annual budget: GBP 1,8 million




Intensity


—




Duration (period)


until 31.3.2027




Economic sectors


Energy




Name and address of the granting authority







Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland




Netherleigh Massey Avenue




Belfast




BT4 2JP




Northern Ireland




UNITED KINGDOM








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/state_aids_texts_en.htm