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Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.6396 — Rhenus/Wincanton International)  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: combined transport, economic concentration, logistics, merger control, waste recycling








C_2012110EN.01000101.xml










17.4.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 110/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.6396 — Rhenus/Wincanton International)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2012/C 110/01
On 22 December 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 German 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 32011M6396. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Case C-178/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Social n °1 de Córdoba (Spain) lodged on 17 April 2012 — Rafaela Rivas Montes v Instituto Municipal de Deportes de Córdoba (IMDECO)
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: bonus payment, contract staff, equal treatment, interpretation of the law, public administration








C_2012209EN.01000301.xml










14.7.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 209/3





Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Social no 1 de Córdoba (Spain) lodged on 17 April 2012 — Rafaela Rivas Montes v Instituto Municipal de Deportes de Córdoba (IMDECO)
(Case C-178/12)
2012/C 209/04
Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Juzgado de lo Social no 1 de Córdoba

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Rafaela Rivas Montes

Defendant: Instituto Municipal de Deportes de Córdoba (IMDECO)

Questions referred







1.


Is it consistent with the Community principle of equality (in the terms in which it has been defined by the Court of Justice) for a given public authority (here the IMDECO), for the purposes of calculating its employees’ length-of-service salary increments, to take into account solely the character of the legal relationship linking the authority and the employees, either of a public service or of a contractual kind, and consequently in the former case (civil servants), in accordance with the Ley estatal funcionarial vigente, for it to take into account without distinction all service, current and past, performed in any part of the public authorities in general (that is, in that particular public authority — IMDECO — or in any another type of public authority), while in contrast, in the latter case (staff engaged under employment contracts), in accordance with the Ley estatal laboral vigente and the case law interpreting it, it takes into account only the service previously provided to that particular public authority (IMDECO), provided however that there is no temporary break in the chain of contracts covering the services which would suggest that the essential unity of the legal-employment relationship had been broken, insofar as, in such a case, the days worked immediately before such a break are disregarded?










2.


If the answer to the first question is in the negative (that is, if the Court of Justice considers that such an action carried out by a public authority — in this case IMDECO — infringes the Community principle of equality), should the restoration of the principle of equality be carried out through the application of the Ley estatal funcionarial to staff engaged under employment contracts?
Notice concerning the anti-dumping measures in respect of imports into the Union of certain finished polyester filament fabrics originating in the People’s Republic of China: modification of the name of a company subject to an individual anti-dumping duty rate
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: China, anti-dumping duty, import (EU), man-made fibre








C_2012110EN.01000601.xml










17.4.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 110/6





Notice concerning the anti-dumping measures in respect of imports into the Union of certain finished polyester filament fabrics originating in the People’s Republic of China: modification of the name of a company subject to an individual anti-dumping duty rate
2012/C 110/05
Imports of certain finished polyester filament fabrics originating in the People’s Republic of China were subject to definitive anti-dumping duties, imposed by Council Regulation (EC) No 1487/2005 (1). The measures expired on 17 September 2010.
Shaoxing Zhengda Group Co., Ltd, a company located in the People’s Republic of China, whose exports to the Union of certain finished polyester filament fabrics were subject to an individual anti-dumping duty rate of 14,1 % by the aforementioned Regulation, has informed the Commission that on 12 April 2010 it changed its name into Zhengda United Holding Group Co., Ltd.
The company has argued that the change of name does not affect the right of the company to benefit from the individual duty rate applied to the company under its previous name of Shaoxing Zhengda Group Co., Ltd during the period starting on the name change date, 12 April 2010, and ending on the expiry date of the measures, 17 September 2010.
The Commission has examined the information supplied and concluded that the change of name in no way affects the findings of Council Regulation (EC) No 1487/2005. Therefore, the reference to:
Shaoxing Zhengda Group Co., Ltd
should be read as:
Zhengda United Holding Group Co., Ltd
in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1487/2005.
The TARIC additional code A617 previously attributed to Shaoxing Zhengda Group Co., Ltd shall apply to Zhengda United Holding Group Co., Ltd.


(1)  OJ L 240, 16.9.2005, p. 1.
Recruitment notice PE/154/S
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: administrator, job vacancy, recruitment, self-employed person








C_2012110EN.01000301.xml










17.4.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 110/3





Recruitment notice PE/154/S
2012/C 110/03
The European Parliament is organising the following selection procedure:

PE/154/S — Temporary staff member Administrator (AD 9) — Adviser
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 12 years’ experience in a field relevant to the job description.
This recruitment notice is published only in English, French and German. The full text is in Official Journal C 110 A in the three languages.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.6544 — Royal Bank of Canada/RBC Dexia Investor Services Limited) — Candidate case for simplified procedure  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, financial services, merger control








C_2012110EN.01001001.xml










17.4.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 110/10





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case COMP/M.6544 — Royal Bank of Canada/RBC Dexia Investor Services Limited)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
2012/C 110/08






1.


On 4 April 2012, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Royal Bank of Canada (‘RBC’, Canada) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of RBC Dexia Investor Services Limited (‘RBC Dexia’, UK), by way of purchase of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






—


for RBC: financial services company active in personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, corporate and investment banking and transaction processing services on a global basis,










—


for RBC Dexia: currently a joint venture company between RBC and Dexia SA, active in global custody, fund and pension administration, securities lending, shareholder services, analytics and other related services.














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.6544 — Royal Bank of Canada/RBC Dexia Investor Services Limited, 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-355/10: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 September 2012 — European Parliament v Council of the European Union (Schengen Borders Code — Decision 2010/252/EU — Surveillance of the sea external borders — Introduction of additional rules governing border surveillance — Commission’s implementing powers — Scope — Application for annulment)
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU competence, European Commission, Frontex, Schengen Information System, external border of the EU, maritime surveillance








C_2012331EN.01000201.xml










27.10.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 331/2






Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 September 2012 — European Parliament v Council of the European Union
(Case C-355/10) (1)

(Schengen Borders Code - Decision 2010/252/EU - Surveillance of the sea external borders - Introduction of additional rules governing border surveillance - Commission’s implementing powers - Scope - Application for annulment)
(2012/C 331/02)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: European Parliament (represented by: M. Dean, A. Auersperger Matić and K. Bradley, Agents)

Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: Z. Kupčová and R. Szostak, Agents)

Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. O’Reilly and M. Wilderspin, Agents)

Re:

Annulment of Council Decision 2010/252/EU of 26 April 2010 supplementing the Schengen Borders Code as regards the surveillance of the sea external borders in the context of operational cooperation coordinated by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (OJ 2010 L 111, p. 20) — Additional measures governing surveillance — Introduction of rules exceeding the extent of the Council’s implementing powers

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls Council Decision 2010/252/EU of 26 April 2010 supplementing the Schengen Borders Code as regards the surveillance of the sea external borders in the context of operational cooperation coordinated by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union;










2.


Maintains the effects of Decision 2010/252 until the entry into force of new rules within a reasonable time;










3.


Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs;










4.


Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.






(1)  OJ C 246, 11.9.2010.
Notice of the expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: China, anti-dumping duty, frozen product, import (EU), originating product, soft fruit








C_2012110EN.01000701.xml










17.4.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 110/7





Notice of the expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
2012/C 110/06
Further to the publication of a notice of impending expiry (1) following which no duly substantiated 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(ies) of origin or exportation


Measures


Reference


Date of expiry (3)





Certain frozen strawberries


People's Republic of China


Anti-dumping duty


Council Regulation (EC) No 407/2007 (OJ L 100, 17.4.2007, p. 1)


18.4.2012






(1)  OJ C 187, 28.6.2011, p. 15.

(2)  OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 51.

(3)  The measure expires at midnight of the day mentioned in this column.
Case T-174/12: Action brought on 17 April 2012 — Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank v Council
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: Syria, common foreign and security policy, economic sanctions, financing, international sanctions, political system, right to justice, rights of the defence








C_2012184EN.01001802.xml










23.6.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 184/18





Action brought on 17 April 2012 — Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank v Council
(Case T-174/12)
2012/C 184/33
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank S.A. L. (Beirut, Lebanon) (represented by: P. Vanderveeren, L. Defalque and T. Bontinck, lawyers)

Defendant: Council of the European Union

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


annul Article 1 of Council Implementing Regulation No 55/2012 of 23 January 2012 and point 27 of the annex to that regulation in so far as the applicant has been added to Annex II to Council Regulation 36/2012 of 18 January 2012;










—


annul Article 1 of Implementing Decision 2012/37/CFSP and point 27 of the annex to that decision in so far as the applicant has been added to Annex II to Decision 2011/273;










—


annul, in so far as necessary; the Council’s decision (in the form of a letter) of 24 January 2012;










—


order the Council to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on four pleas in law.






1.


By its first plea in law, the applicant alleges a manifest error of assessment of its involvement in the financing of the Syrian Regime, since the Council failed to prove the applicant’s involvement in the financing of that regime, either prior to or since adopting the contested measures.










2.


By its second plea in law it alleges an infringement of the rights of the defence, of the right to a fair hearing and to effective judicial protection as a result of the failure to organise a hearing when adopting the contested measures, and by the Council’s implicit refusal to furnish evidence justifying the nature and severity of the sanction.










3.


The third plea in law alleges a lack of sufficient and precise reasoning, in that the Council merely provided vague and general considerations without stating the specific and concrete reasons why it considered that the applicant needed to be made subject to restrictive measures.










4.


By its fourth plea in law, the applicant claims that there were insufficiencies surrounding the adoption of the contested measures, in so far as the Council failed to set out therein the fundamental rights and principles which European Union law grants to the addresses of those measures, and in so far as those measures were adopted on the basis of Article 215 TFEU, which the applicant regards as devoid of any democratic guarantees.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2012-04-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate








C_2012110EN.01000201.xml










17.4.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 110/2





Euro exchange rates (1)

16 April 2012
2012/C 110/02

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,3024




JPY


Japanese yen


105,18




DKK


Danish krone


7,4389




GBP


Pound sterling


0,82270




SEK


Swedish krona


8,8822




CHF


Swiss franc


1,2025




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


7,5530




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558




CZK


Czech koruna


24,789




HUF


Hungarian forint


298,88




LTL


Lithuanian litas


3,4528




LVL


Latvian lats


0,6988




PLN


Polish zloty


4,1940




RON


Romanian leu


4,3730




TRY


Turkish lira


2,3453




AUD


Australian dollar


1,2590




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,3029




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


10,1062




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,5925




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,6301




KRW


South Korean won


1 482,75




ZAR


South African rand


10,4033




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


8,2250




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,4753




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


11 947,71




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


3,9899




PHP


Philippine peso


55,694




RUB


Russian rouble


38,6740




THB


Thai baht


40,126




BRL


Brazilian real


2,3965




MXN


Mexican peso


17,2429




INR


Indian rupee


67,2800






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.