do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate








C_2010311EN.01000501.xml










16.11.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 311/5





Euro exchange rates (1)

15 November 2010
2010/C 311/04

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,3626




JPY


Japanese yen


113,31




DKK


Danish krone


7,4541




GBP


Pound sterling


0,84790




SEK


Swedish krona


9,3690




CHF


Swiss franc


1,3428




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


8,1355




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558




CZK


Czech koruna


24,627




EEK


Estonian kroon


15,6466




HUF


Hungarian forint


276,48




LTL


Lithuanian litas


3,4528




LVL


Latvian lats


0,7092




PLN


Polish zloty


3,9300




RON


Romanian leu


4,2940




TRY


Turkish lira


1,9726




AUD


Australian dollar


1,3822




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,3749




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


10,5636




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,7601




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,7753




KRW


South Korean won


1 547,22




ZAR


South African rand


9,5393




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


9,0530




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,3960




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


12 212,30




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,2779




PHP


Philippine peso


59,565




RUB


Russian rouble


42,1962




THB


Thai baht


40,803




BRL


Brazilian real


2,3466




MXN


Mexican peso


16,7797




INR


Indian rupee


61,5420






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.6036 — Barclays/BPCE/Hexagone France 3) — Candidate case for simplified procedure  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: banking, economic concentration, exchange of information, financial services, merger control, real property








C_2010311EN.01001701.xml










16.11.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 311/17





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case COMP/M.6036 — Barclays/BPCE/Hexagone France 3)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
2010/C 311/08






1.


On 9 November 2010, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertakings Barclays Bank PLC (‘Barclays’, United Kingdom) and Crédit Foncier de France (‘CFF’, France), belonging to the BPCE Group (France) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of the undertaking Hexagone France 3 SARL (‘Hexagone’, France) by way of purchase of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






—


for Barclays: global financial services provider active in retail and commercial banking, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services,










—


for CFF: mortgage specialist affiliated with the BPCE Group, a banking network in France active in investment banking, retail and commercial banking, insurance and real estate services,










—


for Hexagone: special purpose vehicle owning two buildings for commercial use in the French department of Seine Saint-Denis (93), in the Ile-de-France region.














3.


On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the EC Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved. Pursuant to the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under the EC Merger Regulation (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), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number COMP/M.6036 — Barclays/BPCE/Hexagone France 3, to the following address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




J-70




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË










(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘EC Merger Regulation’).

(2)  OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32 (‘Notice on a simplified procedure’).
Case C-529/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Italy) lodged on 16 November 2010 — Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Agenzia delle Entrate v Safilo SpA
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: VAT, delivery, hire purchase, interpretation of the law, misuse of a right, provision of services, self-employed person, tax relief








C_2011030EN.01002201.xml










29.1.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 30/22





Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Italy) lodged on 16 November 2010 — Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Agenzia delle Entrate v Safilo SpA
(Case C-529/10)
()
2011/C 30/36
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Italy)

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellants: Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Agenzia delle Entrate

Respondent: Safilo SpA

Questions referred







1.


Does the abuse of rights principle in taxation matters, as defined in Cases C-255/02 Halifax and Others [2006] ECR I-1609 and C-425/06 Part Service [2008] ECR I-897, constitute a fundamental principle of Community law only in the field of harmonised taxes and in matters governed by secondary Community law provisions, or does it extend, as a category of abuse of fundamental freedoms, to matters involving non harmonised taxes, such as direct taxes, where the tax relates to cross-border financial matters, such as the acquisition by a company of rights of usufruct over the shares of a second company established in another Member State or in a non-Member State?










2.


Irrespective of the answer to the first question, is there a Community interest in provision being made by the Member States for adequate anti-avoidance measures in the field of non-harmonised taxes, and is such an interest thwarted by the failure to apply — in the context of a tax amnesty measure — the abuse of rights principle which is also recognised as a rule of national law and, if so, are the principles that may be inferred from Article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union infringed?










3.


Do the principles governing the single market impliedly preclude not only extraordinary measures in the form of a total waiver of a tax claim, but also a special measure for concluding tax disputes, the application of which is limited in time and conditional upon payment of only part of the tax due, which is considerably less than the full amount?










4.


Do the principle of non-discrimination and the rules governing State aid preclude the system for concluding tax disputes at issue in the present case?










5.


Does the principle of the effective application of Community law preclude extraordinary procedural rules of limited duration which remove the power to review legality (in particular concerning the correct interpretation and application of Community law) from the court of last instance, which is under an obligation to refer questions of validity and interpretation requiring a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union?
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5879 — Alstom/RZD/Cypriot Companies/TMH)  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, exchange of information, investment company, merger control, railway industry








C_2010311EN.01000401.xml










16.11.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 311/4





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.5879 — Alstom/RZD/Cypriot Companies/TMH)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2010/C 311/02
On 9 November 2010, 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:






—


in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/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 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm) under document number 32010M5879. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Case C-383/08: Order of the President of the Third Chamber of the Court of 16 November 2010 — European Commission v Italian Republic
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Italy, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, animal disease, approximation of laws, poultrymeat, traceability








C_2011030EN.01003002.xml










29.1.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 30/30





Order of the President of the Third Chamber of the Court of 16 November 2010 — European Commission v Italian Republic
(Case C-383/08) (1)

()
2011/C 30/48
Language of the case: Italian
The President of the Third Chamber has ordered that the case be removed from the register.


(1)  OJ C 301, 22.11.2008.
Case C-244/09: Order of the President of the Third Chamber of the Court of 16 November 2010 — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Germany, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, amortisation, free movement of capital, investment, real property, tax on income, tax system








C_2011030EN.01003101.xml










29.1.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 30/31





Order of the President of the Third Chamber of the Court of 16 November 2010 — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany
(Case C-244/09) (1)

()
2011/C 30/49
Language of the case: German
The President of the Third Chamber has ordered that the case be removed from the register.


(1)  OJ C 233, 26.9.2009.
Case C-315/10: Order of the President of the Court of 16 November 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal da Relação do Porto (Portugal)) — Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, CSN Cayman Ltd v Unifer Steel SL, BNP Paribas (Suisse), Colepccl (Portugal) SA, Banco Português de Investimento SA (BPI)
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Portugal, credit, interpretation of the law, jurisdiction, law of obligations, nationality








C_2011089EN.01001303.xml










19.3.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/13





Order of the President of the Court of 16 November 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal da Relação do Porto (Portugal)) — Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, CSN Cayman Ltd v Unifer Steel SL, BNP Paribas (Suisse), Colepccl (Portugal) SA, Banco Português de Investimento SA (BPI)
(Case C-315/10) (1)

2011/C 89/27
Language of the case: Portuguese
The President of the Court has ordered that the case be removed from the register.


(1)  OJ C 260, 25.9.2010.
Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) No 1015/2010 of 10 November 2010 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for household washing machines ( OJ L 293, 11.11.2010 )
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: energy consumption, environmental protection, harmonisation of standards, household electrical appliance, product design, water consumption








L_2010298EN.01008701.xml










16.11.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 298/87







Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) No 1015/2010 of 10 November 2010 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for household washing machines
(
Official Journal of the European Union L 293 of 11 November 2010
)

On page 23, Article 8(2)(b):
for:






‘(b)


the generic ecodesign requirements set out in point 1(2) of Annex I shall apply from 1 June 2011;’,




read:






‘(b)


the generic ecodesign requirements set out in point 1(2) of Annex I shall apply from 1 June 2012;’.
Case C-73/10 P: Order of the Court of 16 November 2010 — Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert GmbH & Co. KG v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Commission Decision relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC — Action for annulment — Time-limit — Action brought out of time — Reasons justifying derogation from the time-limit for bringing proceedings — Right of access to a court — Principles of legality and proportionality — Appeal clearly unfounded)
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: General Court (EU), action for annulment (EU), competition law, fixing of prices, import, interpretation of the law, judicial proceedings, offer price, restriction on competition, tropical fruit








C_2011089EN.01000202.xml










19.3.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/2





Order of the Court of 16 November 2010 — Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert GmbH & Co. KG v European Commission
(Case C-73/10 P) (1)

(Appeal - Competition - Commission Decision relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC - Action for annulment - Time-limit - Action brought out of time - Reasons justifying derogation from the time-limit for bringing proceedings - Right of access to a court - Principles of legality and proportionality - Appeal clearly unfounded)
2011/C 89/03
Language of the case: English

Parties


Appellant: Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert GmbH & Co. KG (represented by: A. Rinne, Rechtsanwalt, S. Kon and C. Humpe, Solicitors, and C. Vajda QC)

Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: M. Kellerbauer and A. Biolan, Agents)

Re:

Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 30 November 2009 in Case T-2/09 Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert & Co. KG v Commission of the European Communities dismissing, as manifestly inadmissible, an action for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 5955 final of 15 October 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC (Case COMP/39.188 — Bananas) concerning a cartel on a part of the European market in bananas, or, in the alternative, annulling or reducing the fine imposed on the applicant — Time-limit for bringing an action — Lateness

Operative part of the order







1.


The appeal is dismissed.










2.


Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert GmbH & Co. KG shall pay the costs.






(1)  OJ C 80, 27.3.2010.
Case C-114/10: Order of the President of the Court of 16 November 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel — Belgium) — Belpolis Benelux SA v Belgian State
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Belgium, VAT, VAT rate, interpretation of the law, provision of services








C_2011030EN.01003105.xml










29.1.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 30/31





Order of the President of the Court of 16 November 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel — Belgium) — Belpolis Benelux SA v Belgian State
(Case C-114/10) (1)

()
2011/C 30/53
Language of the case: Dutch
The President of the Court has ordered that the case be removed from the register.


(1)  OJ C 134, 22.05.2010.
Recruitment notice PE/125/S
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Parliament, administrative competition, recruitment, supervisor








C_2010311EN.01001501.xml










16.11.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 311/15





Recruitment notice PE/125/S
2010/C 311/06
The European Parliament is organising the following selection procedure:

PE/125/S — Head of Unit (AD12) — Internal Security Unit, European Parliament
This selection procedure requires a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies attested by a diploma officially recognised in one of the European Union Member States.
By the closing date for applications candidates must, after having obtained the above qualification, have acquired at least 10 years’ experience in a field relevant to the job description, including five years in a management post.
This recruitment notice is published only in English, French and German. The full text is in Official Journal C 311 A in the three languages.
Notice of the expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: India, anti-dumping duty, anti-dumping legislation, iron and steel product, originating product, steel








C_2010311EN.01001601.xml










16.11.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 311/16





Notice of the expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
2010/C 311/07
Further to the publication of a notice of impending expiry (1) following which no request for a review was lodged, the Commission gives notice that the anti-dumping measure mentioned below will shortly expire.
This notice is published in accordance with Article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 of 30 November 2009 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (2).









Product


Country of origin or exportation


Measures


Reference


Date of expiry




Steel ropes and cables


India


Anti-dumping duty


Council Regulation (EC) No 1858/2005 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2005, p. 1) as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 283/2009 (OJ L 94, 8.4.2009, p. 5)


17.11.2010






(1)  OJ C 123, 12.5.2010, p. 10.

(2)  OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 51.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5990 — Investor/Molnlycke)  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, exchange of information, health service, investment, merger control








C_2010311EN.01000402.xml










16.11.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 311/4





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.5990 — Investor/Molnlycke)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2010/C 311/03
On 10 November 2010, 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:






—


in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/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 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm) under document number 32010M5990. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Case C-531/10: Action brought on 16 November 2010 — European Commission v Slovak Republic
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: administrative transparency, anti-discriminatory measure, award of contract, invitation to tender, public contract, services contract, supplies contract, works contract








C_2011030EN.01002202.xml










29.1.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 30/22





Action brought on 16 November 2010 — European Commission v Slovak Republic
(Case C-531/10)
()
2011/C 30/37
Language of the case: Slovak

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: C. Zadra and J. Javorský, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Slovak Republic

Form of order sought







—


declare that, inasmuch as the Ministry of Transport, Postal Services and Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic concluded an agreement for the provision of consultancy services having a cross-border dimension without issuing a call for tenders, the Slovak Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations of non-discrimination and transparency under Articles 49 and 56 TFEU and Article 2 of Directive 2004/18/EC (1)











—


order the Slovak Republic to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

The Ministry of Transport, Postal Services and Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic concluded an agreement for the provision of consultancy services which had a cross-border dimension on grounds of the value of the contract, of the technical information required and of the fact that the previous provider of the services was a company from another Member State. The contract was concluded without a call for tenders. There was thus a clear breach of the principle of transparency, since entities other than those notified by the ministry at its own discretion were not informed of that contract, and did not have the opportunity to submit tenders. By its breach of the principle of transparency, the ministry simultaneously breached the prohibition on discrimination, since it dealt differently with the group of undertakings which it notified of the public contract and the group — including undertakings established outside the Slovak Republic — which were not notified but could have had an interest therein. By the fact that the award of the contract was not made subject to open competition, the ministry itself renounced the advantages arising in that situation from the existence of the internal market, and which would enable the ministry to receive the most advantageous tender for the provision of consultancy services from amongst a large number of undertakings from the European Union.


(1)  Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (OJ 2004 L 134, p. 114).
Joined Cases T-394/08, T-408/08, T-436/08, T-453/08 and T-454/08: Order of the General Court of 16 November 2010 — Regione autonoma della Sardegna and Others v Commission
Date: 2010-11-16
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: Sardinia, State aid, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, aid system, breach of trust, control of State aid, hotel industry








C_2011030EN.01005602.xml










29.1.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 30/56





Order of the General Court of 16 November 2010 — Regione autonoma della Sardegna and Others v Commission
(Joined Cases T-394/08, T-408/08, T-436/08, T-453/08 and T-454/08) (1)

()
2011/C 30/99
Language of the case: Italian
The President of the Fourth Chamber has ordered that the case be removed from the register.


(1)  OJ C 285, 8.11.2008.