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Notice concerning the provisional application of Part IV (trade matters) of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other (Nicaragua)
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Nicaragua, association agreement (EU), free-trade agreement, interim agreement (EU)








L_2013204EN.01000101.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 204/1







Notice concerning the provisional application of Part IV (trade matters) of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other (Nicaragua)

Pending the completion of the procedures for the conclusion of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other, signed at Tegucigalpa on 29 June 2012, Part IV thereof concerning trade matters shall, in accordance with its Article 353(4), be applied on a provisional basis between the European Union and Nicaragua as from 1 August 2013. By virtue of Article 3 (1) of the Council Decision of 25 June 2012 on the signing and provisional application of the Agreement, Article 271 shall not be provisionally applied.
Case C-433/13: Action brought on 31 July 2013 — European Commission v Slovak Republic
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Slovakia, health expenditure, health insurance, infringement of EU law, residence, social-security harmonisation








C_2013336EN.01000602.xml










16.11.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 336/6





Action brought on 31 July 2013 — European Commission v Slovak Republic
(Case C-433/13)
2013/C 336/15
Language of the case: Slovak

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: A. Tokár and F. Schatz, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Slovak Republic

Form of order sought







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declare that, by refusing to provide the cash benefit for care, cash benefit for assistance and cash benefit to compensate for increased costs under Law No 447/2008 to persons entitled who have their residence in a Member State other than the Slovak Republic, the Slovak Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 48 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Articles 7 and 21 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems; (1)











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order the Slovak Republic to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

The Commission submits that the cash benefit for care, cash benefit for assistance and cash benefit to compensate for increased costs under Law No 447/2008 are sickness benefits within the meaning of Article 3(1)(a) of Regulation No 883/2004 which must also be paid to persons entitled who reside outside the Member State concerned (in the present case the Slovak Republic). National legislation thus may not restrict the right of persons entitled who have their residence outside the Slovak Republic to the receipt of those benefits. The national legislation of the Slovak Republic which lays down such a restriction is therefore contrary to Article 48 TFEU and Articles 7 and 21 of Regulation No 883/2004.


(1)  OJ 2004 L 166, p. 1.
Notice concerning the provisional application of Part IV (trade matters) of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other (Honduras)
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Honduras, association agreement (EU), free-trade agreement, interim agreement (EU)








L_2013204EN.01000103.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 204/1







Notice concerning the provisional application of Part IV (trade matters) of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other (Honduras)

Pending the completion of the procedures for the conclusion of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other, signed at Tegucigalpa on 29 June 2012, Part IV thereof concerning trade matters shall, in accordance with its Article 353(4), be applied on a provisional basis between the European Union and Honduras as from 1 August 2013. By virtue of Article 3 (1) of the Council Decision of 25 June 2012 on the signing and provisional application of the Agreement, Article 271 shall not be provisionally applied.
New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, commemoration, euro, issuing of currency








C_2013219EN.01000801.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 219/8





New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
2013/C 219/05




National side of the new commemorative 2-euro coin intended for circulation and issued by Belgium

Euro coins intended for circulation have legal tender status throughout the euro area. For the purpose of informing the public and all parties who handle the coins, the Commission publishes a description of the designs of all new coins (1). In accordance with the Council conclusions of 10 February 2009 (2), euro-area Member States and countries that have concluded a monetary agreement with the Community providing for the issuing of euro coins are allowed to issue commemorative euro coins intended for circulation, provided that certain conditions are met, particularly that only the 2-euro denomination is used. These coins have the same technical characteristics as other 2-euro coins, but their national side features a commemorative design that is highly symbolic in national or European terms.
Issuing country: Belgium
Subject of commemoration: 100th anniversary of the creation of the Royal Meteorological Institute (Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut/Institut Royal Météorologique)
Description of the design: The obverse of the coin displays in its centre the number 100 with the first zero encircling the abbreviations ‘KMI’ and ‘IRM’ and the second zero representing a sun.
Isobars, raindrops and snowflakes are depicted to the left of the sun. The year ‘2013’ is displayed in the upper rays of the sun and the nationality ‘BE’ is indicated in the lower rays. The mark of the mint master and the mark of the Brussels mint, a helmeted profile of the Archangel Michael, are displayed under the ‘1’ of the number ‘100’.
The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.
Number of coins to be issued: 2 million
Date of issue: September 2013


(1)  See OJ C 373, 28.12.2001, p. 1 for the national sides of all the coins issued in 2002.

(2)  See the conclusions of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 10 February 2009 and the Commission Recommendation of 19 December 2008 on common guidelines for the national sides and the issuance of euro coins intended for circulation (OJ L 9, 14.1.2009, p. 52).
Case C-431/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main (Germany) lodged on 31 July 2013 — Vietnam Airlines Co. Ltd v Brigitta Voss, Klaus-Jürgen Voss
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU law - national law, Germany, air transport, consumer protection, indemnification, interpretation of the law, transport regulations








C_2013325EN.01001202.xml










9.11.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 325/12





Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main (Germany) lodged on 31 July 2013 — Vietnam Airlines Co. Ltd v Brigitta Voss, Klaus-Jürgen Voss
(Case C-431/13)
2013/C 325/20
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Landgericht Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Parties to the main proceedings


Defendant and appellant: Vietnam Airlines Co. Ltd

Applicants and respondents: Brigitta Voss, Klaus-Jürgen Voss

Questions referred







1.


Is a passenger entitled to receive in full the compensation provided for in Article 7 of Regulation No 261/2004 (1) for long delay of flights, even when a third party, other than a passenger, has already made a payment to the passenger as compensation for the delay suffered, or should such payment be deducted?










2.


If such a deduction should be made: Is that deduction applicable only to claims for damages within the meaning of German law or also to claims for a price reduction?






(1)  Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 295/91 (OJ 2004 L 46, p. 1).
Notice for the attention of the persons to which restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2011/72/CFSP, as implemented by Council Decision 2013/409/CFSP, and Council Regulation (EU) No 101/2011, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 735/2013, concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Tunisia apply
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Tunisia, capital movement, economic sanctions, international sanctions








C_2013219EN.01000201.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 219/2





Notice for the attention of the persons to which restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2011/72/CFSP, as implemented by Council Decision 2013/409/CFSP, and Council Regulation (EU) No 101/2011, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 735/2013, concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Tunisia apply
2013/C 219/02
The following information is brought to the attention of the persons that appear in the lists in the Annex to Council Decision 2011/72/CFSP, as implemented by Council Decision 2013/409/CFSP (1), and in Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) No 101/2011, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 735/2013 (2), concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Tunisia.
The Council of the European Union has decided that the persons appearing in those Annexes should be subject to the restrictive measures provided for under that Council Decision and Council Regulation. The grounds for listing of those persons appear in the relevant entries in those Annexes.
The attention of the persons concerned is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s) as indicated in the websites in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 101/2011, in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds for basic needs or specific payments (cf. Article 4 of the Regulation).
The attention of persons concerned is drawn to the possibility of submitting a request to the Council, together with supporting documentation that the decision to include them on the abovementioned lists should be reconsidered. Any such request should be sent to the following address:





Council of the European Union




DG C — Unit 1C (Horizontal Issues)




General Secretariat




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




The attention of the persons concerned is also drawn to the possibility of challenging the Council's Decision before the General Court of the European Union, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 275, second paragraph, and Article 263, fourth and sixth paragraphs, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.


(1)  OJ L 204, 31.7.2013, p. 52.

(2)  OJ L 204, 31.7.2013, p. 23.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.6963 — Archer Daniels Midland Company/GrainCorp)  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Australia, Europe, North America, agricultural product, economic concentration, food processing, merger control








C_2013219EN.01000101.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 219/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.6963 — Archer Daniels Midland Company/GrainCorp)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2013/C 219/01
On 25 July 2013, 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:






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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,










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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm) under document number 32013M6963. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.6997 — TowerBrook Capital/Metallum) — Candidate case for simplified procedure  Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Europe, North America, copper, distribution business, economic concentration, investment company, merger control








C_2013219EN.01001101.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 219/11





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case COMP/M.6997 — TowerBrook Capital/Metallum)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
2013/C 219/08






1.


On 25 July 2013, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking TowerBrook Investors III LP (Cayman Islands), controlled by TowerBrook Capital Partners LP (‘TowerBrook’, USA), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking of Metallum Holding SA (‘Metallum’, Luxembourg) by way of purchase of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






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TowerBrook is a private equity investment firm pursuing investments in large and middle market companies in Europe and North America,










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Metallum primarily recycles, processes and trades non-ferrous metals and refines copper scrap to produce copper cathodes and by-products of the copper refining process.














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.6997 — TowerBook Capital/Metallum, 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’).
New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Portugal, commemoration, euro, issuing of currency








C_2013219EN.01001001.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 219/10





New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
2013/C 219/07




National side of the new commemorative 2-euro coin intended for circulation and issued by Portugal

Euro coins intended for circulation have legal tender status throughout the euro area. For the purpose of informing the public and all parties who handle the coins, the Commission publishes a description of the designs of all new coins (1). In accordance with the Council conclusions of 10 February 2009 (2), euro-area Member States and countries that have concluded a monetary agreement with the Community providing for the issuing of euro coins are allowed to issue commemorative euro coins intended for circulation, provided that certain conditions are met, particularly that only the 2-euro denomination is used. These coins have the same technical characteristics as other 2-euro coins, but their national face features a commemorative design that is highly symbolic in national or European terms.
Issuing country: Portugal
Subject of commemoration: the 250th anniversary of the construction of ‘Torre dos Clérigos’
Description of the design: The tower is depicted as it can be seen by the people on the street when standing close to it, side by side with the typical Oporto skyline as seen from Douro River south bank. At the top, in semi-circle, the inscription ‘250 ANOS TORRE DOS CLÉRIGOS — 2013’. At the bottom right, the Portuguese coat of arms and underneath the indication of the issuing country ‘PORTUGAL’. At the left, the mint mark and the name of the artist ‘INCM — HUGO MACIEL’.
The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.
Number of coins to be issued: 
Date of issue: June 2013


(1)  See OJ C 373, 28.12.2001, p. 1 for the national faces of all the coins issued in 2002.

(2)  See the conclusions of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 10 February 2009 and the Commission Recommendation of 19 December 2008 on common guidelines for the national sides and the issuance of euro coins intended for circulation (OJ L 9, 14.1.2009, p. 52).
New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Luxembourg, commemoration, euro, issuing of currency








C_2013219EN.01000901.xml










31.7.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 219/9





New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
2013/C 219/06




National side of the new commemorative 2-euro coin intended for circulation and issued by Luxembourg

Euro coins intended for circulation have legal tender status throughout the euro area. For the purpose of informing the public and all parties who handle the coins, the Commission publishes a description of the designs of all new coins (1). In accordance with the Council conclusions of 10 February 2009 (2), euro-area Member States and countries that have concluded a monetary agreement with the Community providing for the issuing of euro coins are allowed to issue commemorative euro coins intended for circulation, provided that certain conditions are met, particularly that only the 2-euro denomination is used. These coins have the same technical characteristics as other 2-euro coins, but their national face features a commemorative design that is highly symbolic in national or European terms.
Issuing country: Luxembourg
Subject of commemoration: The National Anthem of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Description of the design: The coin depicts on the right hand of its inner part the effigy of His Royal Highness, the Grand Duke Henri, looking to the left, and on the left hand of its inner part the musical notation as well as the text of the national anthem. The text ‘Ons Heemecht’ appears at the top of the inner part and the name of the issuing country ‘LËTZEBUERG’ as well as the year-date ‘2013’, flanked by the mint mark and the initials of the mint master, appear at the bottom of the inner part of the coin.
The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.
Number of coins to be issued: 1,4 million
Date of issue: September 2013


(1)  See OJ C 373, 28.12.2001, p. 1 for the national faces of all the coins issued in 2002.

(2)  See the conclusions of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 10 February 2009 and the Commission Recommendation of 19 December 2008 on common guidelines for the national sides and the issuance of euro coins intended for circulation (OJ L 9, 14.1.2009, p. 52).
Case T-402/13: Action brought on 31 July 2013 — Orange v Commission
Date: 2013-07-31
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: France, Internet, principle of proportionality, provision of services, restriction on competition








C_2013313EN.01002801.xml










26.10.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 313/28





Action brought on 31 July 2013 — Orange v Commission
(Case T-402/13)
2013/C 313/53
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: Orange (Paris, France) (represented by: J.-P. Gunther and A. Giraud, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






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annul the contested decision;










—


order the Commission to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

By the present action, the applicant seeks annulment of the Commission’s decisions of 25 and 27 June 2013 addressed to France Télécom, Orange and all the companies directly or indirectly controlled by them, ordering them to undergo an inspection pursuant to Article 20(4) of Council Regulation No 1/2003. (1) Those decisions were taken in the context of proceedings under Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement concerning the sector providing internet connectivity services (Case AT.40090).
In support of the action, the applicant relies on two pleas in law.






1.


First plea in law, alleging infringement of the principles of necessity and proportionality, in that the Commission ordered an inspection in relation to practices which were very similar to those covered by a decision delivered by the French competition authority only nine months earlier, even though the French competition authority found no anti-competitive conduct on the part of Orange. The applicant claims that, at the time of the inspection, the Commission did not seek additional information to that which it already had at its disposal, something which it ought to have done in accordance with the case-law in this area.










2.


Second plea in law, alleging that the contested decisions are arbitrary, in that the Commission does not have sufficiently serious and detailed grounds for taking a measure as intrusive as an inspection.






(1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles [101 TFEU] and [102 TFEU] (OJ 2003 L 1, p. 1).