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Special Report No 11/2012 ‘Suckler cow and ewe and goat direct aids under partial implementation of SPS arrangements’
Date: 2012-09-07
Institutions: European Court of Auditors
Subjects: EU aid, goat, sheep, single payment scheme, suckler cow








C_2012270EN.01000201.xml










7.9.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 270/2





Special Report No 11/2012 ‘Suckler cow and ewe and goat direct aids under partial implementation of SPS arrangements’
2012/C 270/02
The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 11/2012 ‘Suckler cow and ewe and goat direct aids under partial implementation of SPS arrangements’ has just been published.
The report can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the European Court of Auditors' website: http://eca.europa.eu
A hard copy version of the report may be obtained free of charge on request to the Court of Auditors:





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Information communicated by Member States regarding closure of fisheries
Date: 2012-09-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean, North-West Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, Spain, catch by species, catch quota, crustacean, fishing rights, ship's flag








C_2012270EN.01000301.xml










7.9.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 270/3





Information communicated by Member States regarding closure of fisheries
2012/C 270/03
In accordance with Article 35(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy (1), a decision has been taken to close the fishery as set down in the following table:






Date and time of closure


10.8.2012




Duration


10.8.2012-31.12.2012




Member State


Spain




Stock or group of stocks


PRA/N3L




Species


Northern prawn (Pandalus borealis)




Zone


NAFO 3L




Type(s) of fishing vessels


—




Reference number


FS20TQ44






(1)  OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2012-09-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate








C_2012270EN.01000101.xml










7.9.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 270/1





Euro exchange rates (1)

6 September 2012
2012/C 270/01

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,2638




JPY


Japanese yen


99,36




DKK


Danish krone


7,4514




GBP


Pound sterling


0,79360




SEK


Swedish krona


8,5026




CHF


Swiss franc


1,2049




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


7,3725




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558




CZK


Czech koruna


24,703




HUF


Hungarian forint


285,44




LTL


Lithuanian litas


3,4528




LVL


Latvian lats


0,6962




PLN


Polish zloty


4,1594




RON


Romanian leu


4,4828




TRY


Turkish lira


2,2951




AUD


Australian dollar


1,2341




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,2470




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


9,8028




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,5830




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,5743




KRW


South Korean won


1 432,57




ZAR


South African rand


10,5615




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


8,0177




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,4450




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


12 093,06




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


3,9381




PHP


Philippine peso


52,845




RUB


Russian rouble


40,6844




THB


Thai baht


39,468




BRL


Brazilian real


2,5756




MXN


Mexican peso


16,5162




INR


Indian rupee


70,3490






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Case C-411/12: Action brought on 7 September 2012 — European Commission v Italian Republic
Date: 2012-09-07
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: State aid, aluminium, control of State aid








C_2012355EN.01001001.xml










17.11.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 355/10





Action brought on 7 September 2012 — European Commission v Italian Republic
(Case C-411/12)
2012/C 355/16
Language of the case: Italian

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky, S. Thomas and D. Grespan, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Italian Republic

Form of order sought







—


Declare that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the measures necessary to abolish the State aid scheme found to be unlawful and incompatible with the common market by Commission Decision 2011/746/EU of 23 February 2011 on State aid granted by Italy to Portovesme Srl, ILA SpA, Eurallumina SpA and Syndial SpA (State aid measures C 38/B/2004 (ex NN 58/2004) and C 13/2006 (ex N 587/2005) (notified under document C(2011) 956 on 24 February 2012 and published in OJ 2011 L 309, pp. 1 to 22), the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 3, 4 and 5 of that decision and under the TFEU Treaty;










—


Order the Italian Republic to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

The period allowed by the decision for recovery of the State aid declared unlawful expired on 24 June 2011. Furthermore, the defendant was required to notify the Commission, by 24 April 2001, of the total amount of aid to be recovered and the measures taken and planned to comply with the decision.
At the date on which the present proceedings were brought, the defendant had not yet adopted the measures necessary to recover the aid granted to the recipient undertakings or communicated to the Commission all the information requested.
Notice concerning a request under Article 30 of Directive 2004/17/EC — Request from a contracting entity
Date: 2012-09-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Cyprus, award of contract, competition, gas field, marketing, petroleum exploration








C_2012270EN.01000401.xml










7.9.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 270/4





Notice concerning a request under Article 30 of Directive 2004/17/EC
Request from a contracting entity
2012/C 270/04
On 17 August 2012, the Commission received a request under Article 30(5) of Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors. The first working day following receipt of the request is 20 August 2012.
That request, from Noble Energy International Ltd, concerns exploration for oil and gas in Cyprus. Article 30 provides that Directive 2004/17/EC does not apply where the activity is directly exposed to competition on markets to which access is not restricted. These conditions are evaluated solely for the purposes of Directive 2004/17/EC and are without prejudice to the application of competition rules.
The Commission has a period of three months, as from the working day referred to above, within which to take a decision on the request. The period therefore ends on 20 November 2012.
That period may be extended by three months. Notice of any such extension must be published.
In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 30(6), further requests concerning exploration for and extraction of oil and gas in Cyprus submitted before the expiry of the period opened in respect of this request shall not be considered as new procedures and shall be treated in the context of this request.
Case C-410/12 P: Appeal brought on 7 September 2012 by medi GmbH & Co. KG against the judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) delivered on 12 July 2012 in Case T-470/09 medi GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
Date: 2012-09-07
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU trade mark, medical device, registered trade mark, trade-mark law








C_2012331EN.01001602.xml










27.10.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 331/16






Appeal brought on 7 September 2012 by medi GmbH & Co. KG against the judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) delivered on 12 July 2012 in Case T-470/09 medi GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
(Case C-410/12 P)
(2012/C 331/26)
Language of the case: German

Parties


Appellant: medi GmbH & Co. KG (represented by: D. Terheggen, Rechtsanwalt)

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

Form of order sought







—


Set aside in full the judgment of the General Court under appeal (Case T-470/09; judgment of 12 July 2012);










—


grant in full the form of order sought at first instance in accordance with the application submitted to the General Court of the European Union and the amendments in the oral hearing on 2 May 2012 as recorded in the minutes.





Pleas in law and main arguments

The present appeal is brought against the judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2012 in Case T-470/09, by which the General Court dismissed the action brought by medi GmbH & Co. KG against the decision of 1 October 2009 of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Case R 692/2008-4) concerning the registration of the word sign ‘medi’ as a Community trade mark.
The appellant relies in essence on the following ground of appeal.
The General Court is said to have erred in law in its application of Article 7(1)(b) of the Community trade mark regulation (1) in that it proceeded on the assumption that the word sign ‘medi’ does not have the requisite minimum degree of distinctiveness for a Community trade mark. That is incorrect, as that word sign is not a conventional abbreviation of the word ‘medicine’ for the relevant average English-speaking consumer.


(1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).