do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.6071 — Ineos/Ineos Nova)  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: chemical industry, economic concentration, exchange of information, merger control, oil industry








C_2011060EN.01000901.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 60/9





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.6071 — Ineos/Ineos Nova)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2011/C 60/04
On 16 February 2011, 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 32011M6071. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Procès-verbal of rectification to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed at Bridgetown, Barbados on 15 October 2008 and at Haiti on 10 December 2009 ( OJ L 289, 30.10.2008 )
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, European Community
Subjects: ACP countries, European Community, cooperation agreement, development aid, economic cooperation








L_2011051EN.01002302.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 51/23








Procès-verbal of rectification to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed at Bridgetown, Barbados on 15 October 2008 and at Haiti on 10 December 2009
         
(
Official Journal of the European Union L 289 of 30 October 2008
)

This procès-verbal of rectification cancels and replaces the corrigendum published in the 
Official Journal of the European Union L 24 of 27 January 2011, page 126.
This rectification has been carried out by means of a procès-verbal of rectification signed at Brussels on 15 December 2010 with the Council as depository.
Appendix 1 to Annex III, ‘Schedule of tariff liberalisation of the CARIFORUM States’
            
On page II/1511, the tariff codes in the second column, immediately following tariff codes ‘BHM 8703.22’ and ‘DOM 8703.22’:
for:







‘DOM


8703.21.10




DOM


8703.21.20




DOM


8703.21.99’,





read:







‘DOM


8703.22.10




DOM


8703.22.20




DOM


8703.22.99’.
Commission Regulation (EU) No 192/2011 of 25 February 2011 establishing special measures as regards the private storage aid for pigmeat laid down by Regulation (EU) No 68/2011
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid to agriculture, pigmeat, private stock, storage premium




L_2011053EN.01006501.xml










26.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 53/65








            COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 192/2011
of 25 February 2011
         
establishing special measures as regards the private storage aid for pigmeat laid down by Regulation (EU) No 68/2011


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1),


Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 826/2008 of 20 August 2008 laying down common rules for the granting of private storage aid for certain agricultural products (2), and in particular Article 23(3) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


An examination of the situation has indicated a risk that there will be an excessively large number of applications for the private storage aid scheme for pigmeat introduced by Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2011 of 28 January 2011 on fixing the amount of aid in advance for private storage of pigmeat (3).












(2)


Therefore, it is necessary to suspend application of the scheme established by Regulation (EU) No 68/2011 and reject the applications in question.












(3)


In order to avoid speculation, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1

1.   Application of Regulation (EU) No 68/2011 is hereby suspended for the period 27 February 2011 to 4 March 2011. Applications to conclude contracts submitted during this period shall not be accepted.


2.   Applications submitted from 22 February 2011, whose acceptance would have been decided during the period referred to in paragraph 1, are hereby rejected.



Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following 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, 25 February 2011.


For the Commission, On behalf of the President,
José Manuel SILVA RODRÍGUEZ
            

Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development






(1)  
            OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ L 223, 21.8.2008, p. 3.

(3)  
            OJ L 26, 29.1.2011, p. 2.
Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) No 177/2010 of 2 March 2010 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code ( OJ L 52, 3.3.2010 )
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: carriage of goods, customs formalities, customs regulations, customs territory (EU), customs union, maritime transport, originating product, simplification of formalities








L_2011051EN.01002301.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 51/23







Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) No 177/2010 of 2 March 2010 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code
(
Official Journal of the European Union L 52 of 3 March 2010
)

On page 31, ‘Number of packages (box 31)’:
for:


                  ‘Type/Length: an ..5’,

read:


                  ‘Type/length: n ..5’.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.6128 — Blackstone/Mivisa)  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cannery, consultancy, economic concentration, exchange of information, merger control








C_2011060EN.01002401.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 60/24





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case COMP/M.6128 — Blackstone/Mivisa)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2011/C 60/12






1.


On 18 February 2011, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which investment funds managed or advised by affiliates of The Blackstone Group LP (together, ‘Blackstone’, USA) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of Sofamen XXI, SAU (together with its subsidiaries, ‘Mivisa’, Spain), by way of purchase of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






—


for Blackstone: global alternative asset manager and provider of financial advisory services,










—


for Mivisa: manufacture of tinplate food cans.














3.


On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope the EC Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.










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 e-mail to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number COMP/M.6128 — Blackstone/Mivisa, 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’).
Case C-91/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 25 February 2011 — Securvita Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung alternativer Versicherungskonzepte mbH v Öko-Invest Verlagsgesellschaft mbH; Other party: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European patent, Germany, trade-mark law








C_2011173EN.01000401.xml










11.6.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 173/4





Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 25 February 2011 — Securvita Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung alternativer Versicherungskonzepte mbH v Öko-Invest Verlagsgesellschaft mbH; Other party: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
(Case C-91/11)
2011/C 173/06
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundespatentgericht

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Securvita Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung alternativer Versicherungskonzepte mbH

Defendant: Öko-Invest Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Other party: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

Question referred

Is the ground for refusal under Article 3(1)(b) and/or (c) of Directive 2008/95/EG (1) also applicable to a word sign which consists of a letter sequence which is non-descriptive — when considered on its own — and a descriptive word combination, if the trade perceives the letter sequence as an abbreviation of the descriptive words because it reproduces their initial letters, and the trade mark as a whole can thus be construed as a combination of mutually explanatory descriptive indications or abbreviations?


(1)  Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance); OJ 2008 L 299, p. 25.
Case C-90/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 25 February 2011 — Alfred Strigl v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European patent, Germany, trade-mark law








C_2011173EN.01000302.xml










11.6.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 173/3





Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 25 February 2011 — Alfred Strigl v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
(Case C-90/11)
2011/C 173/05
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundespatentgericht

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Alfred Strigl

Defendant: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

Question referred

Is the ground for refusal under Article 3(1)(b) and/or (c) of Directive 2008/95/EC (1) also applicable to a word sign which consists of a descriptive word combination and a non descriptive letter sequence, if the trade perceives the letter sequence as an abbreviation of the descriptive words because it reproduces their initial letters, and the trade mark as a whole can thus be construed as a combination of mutually explanatory descriptive indications or abbreviations?


(1)  Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (Codified version); OJ 2008 L 299, p. 25.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5978 — GDF Suez/International Power)  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, electrical energy, exchange of information, merger control








C_2011060EN.01000902.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 60/9





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.5978 — GDF Suez/International Power)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2011/C 60/05
On 26 January 2011, 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 32011M5978. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Recommendation of the European Central Bank of 25 February 2011 to the Council of the European Union on the external auditors of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique (ECB/2011/1)
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Central Bank
Subjects: Belgium, European Central Bank, accountant, appointment of staff, central bank








C_2011067EN.01000101.xml










2.3.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 67/1





RECOMMENDATION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
of 25 February 2011
to the Council of the European Union on the external auditors of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique
(ECB/2011/1)
2011/C 67/01
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, and in particular Article 27.1 thereof,
Whereas:






(1)


The accounts of the European Central Bank (ECB) and national central banks are audited by independent external auditors recommended by the ECB’s Governing Council and approved by the Council of the European Union.










(2)


The mandate of the external auditors of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique ended after the audit for the financial year 2010. It is therefore necessary to appoint external auditors from the financial year 2011.










(3)


The Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique has selected Ernst & Young Bedrijfsrevisoren/Réviseurs d’entreprises as its external auditors for the financial years 2011 to 2013, with the possibility of one single renewal for the financial years 2014 to 2016,




HAS ADOPTED THIS RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that Ernst & Young Bedrijfsrevisoren/Réviseurs d’entreprises should be appointed as the external auditors of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique for the financial years 2011 to 2013, with the possibility of one renewal for the financial years 2014 to 2016.

Done at Frankfurt am Main, 25 February 2011.


The President of the ECB

Jean-Claude TRICHET
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate








C_2011060EN.01001101.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 60/11





Euro exchange rates (1)

24 February 2011
2011/C 60/07

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,3773




JPY


Japanese yen


112,69




DKK


Danish krone


7,4547




GBP


Pound sterling


0,85130




SEK


Swedish krona


8,7985




CHF


Swiss franc


1,2748




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


7,7190




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558




CZK


Czech koruna


24,529




HUF


Hungarian forint


273,40




LTL


Lithuanian litas


3,4528




LVL


Latvian lats


0,7037




PLN


Polish zloty


3,9975




RON


Romanian leu


4,2320




TRY


Turkish lira


2,2132




AUD


Australian dollar


1,3682




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,3550




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


10,7370




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,8450




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,7606




KRW


South Korean won


1 563,18




ZAR


South African rand


9,7389




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


9,0551




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,4225




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


12 219,39




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,2152




PHP


Philippine peso


60,318




RUB


Russian rouble


40,0115




THB


Thai baht


42,159




BRL


Brazilian real


2,2979




MXN


Mexican peso


16,7989




INR


Indian rupee


62,6230






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Recruitment for the European Medicines Agency (London)
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Medicines Agency
Subjects: England, European Medicines Agency, recruitment, supervisor








CA2011060EN.01000101.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


CA 60/1





RECRUITMENT FOR THE EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY (LONDON)
(2011/C 60 A/01)

The Agency is responsible for co-ordinating the evaluation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use in the European Union (see European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 — OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1). The Agency was established in January 1995. It has many close contacts with the European Commission, 27 EU Member States, EEA-EFTA countries and many other groups in government and the private sector.


Further information on the Agency and its activities is readily accessible through the Internet; our web address is http://www.ema.europa.eu

The European Medicines Agency is organising a selection procedure with a view to drawing up a reserve list for:






—



EMA/AD/322: Head of Unit for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) (AD12)





Selected candidates will be included on a reserve list and, depending on the budgetary situation, may be offered a 5-year renewable contract in accordance with the Conditions of employment of other servants of the European Union (OJ L 56, 4.3.1968).
The place of employment shall be London.
Candidates must be nationals of a Member State of the European Union, or of Iceland, Norway or Liechtenstein, on condition that they have full rights as a citizen.

The complete conditions and job description should be downloaded from the Agency website:


http://www.ema.europa.eu/htms/general/admin/recruit/recruitnew.htm


Applications have to be submitted electronically using the form available on the Agency website. The application deadline is midnight 8 April 2011.


Please note that due to the large number of applications the Agency may receive, when reaching the deadline for submission of applications, the system may have problems to process the large amounts of data. Applicants are therefore advised to send in their application well ahead of the deadline.

If you wish to receive notification of vacancy publications electronically please register online for an RSS feed at http://www.ema.europa.eu/ under ‘News & Events’.
Case C-88/11 P: Appeal brought on 25 February 2011 by LG Electronics, Inc. against the judgment delivered on 16 December 2010 in Case T-497/09 LG Electronics v OHIM (KOMPRESSOR PLUS)
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment, electronics industry, trade-mark law








C_2011120EN.01000801.xml










16.4.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 120/8





Appeal brought on 25 February 2011 by LG Electronics, Inc. against the judgment delivered on 16 December 2010 in Case T-497/09 LG Electronics v OHIM (KOMPRESSOR PLUS)
(Case C-88/11 P)
2011/C 120/14
Language of the case: French

Parties


Appellant: LG Electronics, Inc. (represented by J. Blanchard, lawyer)

Other party to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)

Form of order sought







—


declare the appeal admissible;










—


set aside the judgment of the Second Chamber of the General Court of 16 December 2010;










—


set aside in part the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 23 September 2009 in so far as it dismissed in part the appeal brought by LG Electronics against the decision of 5 February 2009 refusing the application for registration of Community trade mark No 007282924 in so far as it designated ‘electric vacuum cleaners’;










—


order OHIM to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

The appellant pleads an infringement of Article 7(1)(c) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark. (1)

The appellant observes, first, that the General Court relied on new facts, communicated for the first time by OHIM before the Court, which had not been relied on before the Board of Appeal.
The appellant submits, second, that the General Court erred by distorting the facts and evidence submitted to it, leading to conclude wrongly that vacuum cleaners could be used as compressors.
Finally, it observes that, since vacuum cleaners do not in any event contain a compressor and cannot be used as compressors, the mark KOMPRESSOR PLUS cannot in any case be regarded as consisting exclusively of signs or indications which may serve, in trade, to designate the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value, geographical origin or the time of production of the goods or of rendering of the services, or other characteristics of the goods or service.


(1)  OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1.
Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU — Cases where the Commission raises no objections  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2011-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Italy, State aid, control of State aid, means of communication








C_2011060EN.01000701.xml










25.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 60/7





Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU
Cases where the Commission raises no objections
(Text with EEA relevance)
2011/C 60/03






Date of adoption of the decision


12.10.2010




Reference number of State Aid


N 97/10




Member State


France




Region


—




Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)


Mesure de réduction du coût d’usage de la musique en ligne




Legal basis


Projet de décret relatif à la «Carte musique»




Type of measure


Aid scheme




Objective


Sectoral development




Form of aid


Transactions not on market terms




Budget








 


Annual budget: EUR 25 million










 


Overall budget: EUR 75 million








Intensity


50 %




Duration (period)


Until 25.10.2012




Economic sectors


Media




Name and address of the granting authority







Ministère de la Culture et de la communication




3 rue de Valois




75033 Paris Cedex 01




FRANCE








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






Date of adoption of the decision


11.1.2011




Reference number of State Aid


N 498/10




Member State


Italy




Region


—




Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)


Film production in South Tyrol




Legal basis


Legge provinciale n. 66/2010




Type of measure


Aid scheme




Objective


Culture




Form of aid


Direct grant




Budget








 


Annual budget: EUR 5 million










 


Overall budget: EUR 15 million








Intensity


80 %




Duration (period)


1.1.2011-31.12.2013




Economic sectors


Media




Name and address of the granting authority


Provincia autonoma di Bolzano




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