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Case T-259/13: Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2015 — France v Commission (EAGGF — Guarantee Section — EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Rural development support measures — Areas with natural handicaps — Flat rate financial correction — Expenditure incurred by France — Loading criterion — On-the-spot controls — Procedural safeguards)
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EAFRD, EAGF, EAGGF Guarantee Section, France, aid to agriculture, eligibility criteria, regional aid, rural development, sheep, terms for aid








C_2015228EN.01001001.xml










13.7.2015   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 228/10





Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2015 — France v Commission
(Case T-259/13) (1)

((EAGGF - Guarantee Section - EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Rural development support measures - Areas with natural handicaps - Flat rate financial correction - Expenditure incurred by France - Loading criterion - On-the-spot controls - Procedural safeguards))
(2015/C 228/11)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: French Republic (represented by: E. Belliard, D. Colas, C. Candat and G. de Bergues, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: D. Bianchi and G. von Rintelen, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by N. Díaz Abad and subsequently by A. Sampol Pucurull, abogados del Estado)

Re:

Application for the partial annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2013/123/EU of 26 February 2013 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2013 L 67, p. 20).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls Commission Implementing Decision 2013/123/EU of 26 February 2013 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in so far as it applies a financial correction to the French Republic in the context of rural development support measures for sheep not covered by an application for sheep premiums for the accounting years 2008 and 2009;










2.


Dismisses the action as to the remainder;










3.


Orders the French Republic to bear three quarters of its own costs and three quarters of the costs incurred by the European Commission;










4.


Orders the European Commission to bear one quarter of its own costs and one quarter of the costs incurred by the French Republic;










5.


Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.






(1)  OJ C 207, 20.7.2013.
Case T-432/12: Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2015 — VTZ and Others v Council (Dumping — Imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes, of iron or steel, originating in Russia and Ukraine — Definitive anti-dumping duty — Expiry review — Likelihood of recurrence of injury — European Union interest — Manifest error of assessment — Obligation to state reasons)
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: Croatia, Russia, Ukraine, anti-dumping duty, damage, import (EU), iron and steel product, originating product, tube








C_2015198EN.01003001.xml










15.6.2015   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 198/30





Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2015 — VTZ and Others v Council
(Case T-432/12) (1)

((Dumping - Imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes, of iron or steel, originating in Russia and Ukraine - Definitive anti-dumping duty - Expiry review - Likelihood of recurrence of injury - European Union interest - Manifest error of assessment - Obligation to state reasons))
(2015/C 198/39)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicants: Volžskij trubnyi zavod OAO (VTZ OAO) (Volzhksy, Russia); Taganrogskij metallurgičeskij zavod OAO (Tagmet OAO) (Taganrog, Russia); Sinarskij trubnyj zavod OAO (SinTZ OAO) (Kamensk-Uralsky, Russia); Severskij trubnyj zavod OAO (STZ OAO) (Polevskoy, Russia) (represented by: J.-F. Bellis, F. Di Gianni, G. Coppo and C. Van Hemelrijck, lawyers)

Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: S. Boelaert, acting as Agent, assisted initially by G. Berrisch and A. Polcyn, and subsequently by A. Polcyn and D. Geradin, lawyers)

Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. França and A. Stobiecka-Kuik, acting as Agents)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 585/2012 of 26 June 2012 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes, of iron or steel, originating in Russia and Ukraine, following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009, and terminating the expiry review proceeding concerning imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes, of iron or steel, originating in Croatia (OJ 2012 L 174, p. 5), in so far as it applies to the applicants.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders Volžskij trubnyi zavod OAO (VTZ OAO), Taganrogskij metallurgičeskij zavod OAO (Tagmet OAO), Sinarskij trubnyj zavod OAO (SinTZ OAO) and Severskij trubnyj zavod OAO (STZ OAO) to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union;










3.


Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.






(1)  OJ C 366, 24.11.2012.
New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, commemoration, euro, issuing of currency




C_2015143EN.01000401.xml










30.4.2015   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 143/4





New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
(2015/C 143/05)



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 European Union 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
: Germany


Subject of commemoration
: Hessen from the ‘Lander’ series


Description of the design
: The design depicts a classic perspective on St. Paul’s Church in Frankfurt (the ‘Paulskirche’ was the seat of Germany’s first freely elected legislative body in 1849 and is regarded as the cradle of German democracy) and is therefore the perspective possessing the greatest recognition value. The design incisively brings out the tension between the dominant tower and the elliptical structure of the church. The slightly exaggerated flight of steps has an inviting quality while simultaneously offering support to the subjacent inscription ‘HESSEN’ (the Federal State of Hessen in which St. Paul’s Church is situated).The inner part also features the year ‘2015’ and the mint mark of the respective mint (‘A’, ‘D’, ‘F’, ‘G’ or ‘J’) at the left side as well as the issuing country’s indication ‘D’ and the engraver’s mark (the initials ‘HH’ — Heinz Hoyer) at the right side.
The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.


Number of coins to be issued
: 30 million


Date of issue
: 


(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).
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 117/2015 of 30 April 2015 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1300]
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, building industry, environmental impact, environmental protection, impact study, industrial project, private sector, project evaluation, public sector, revision of an agreement




L_2016211EN.01007601.xml










4.8.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 211/76








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 117/2015
of 30 April 2015
         
amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1300]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 amending Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following is added in point 1a (Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:

                  ‘, as amended by:






—



32014 L 0052: Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 (OJ L 124, 25.4.2014, p. 1).




The provisions of the Directive shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
References to Union legislation in the Directive shall apply to the extent and in the form that the relevant Union acts are incorporated into this Agreement.’
               


Article 2
The text of Directive 2014/52/EU in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.


Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 May 2015, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).


Article 4
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 30 April 2015.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Gianluca GRIPPA
            





(1)  
            OJ L 124, 25.4.2014, p. 1.

(*1)  Constitutional requirements indicated.
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 86/2015 of 30 April 2015 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1269]
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, market supervision, marketing standard, measuring equipment, metrology, revision of an agreement, technical regulations, water consumption




L_2016211EN.01002301.xml










4.8.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 211/23








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 86/2015
of 30 April 2015
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1269]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2015/13 of 31 October 2014 amending Annex III to Directive 2014/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the flowrate range of water meters (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following is added in point 27e (Directive 2014/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter IX of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:

                  ‘, as amended by:






—



32015 L 0013: Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2015/13 of 31 October 2014 (OJ L 3, 7.1.2015, p. 42).’
                     






Article 2
The text of Delegated Directive (EU) 2015/13 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.


Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 May 2015, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).


Article 4
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 30 April 2015.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Gianluca GRIPPA
            





(1)  
            OJ L 3, 7.1.2015, p. 42.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 127/2015 of 30 April 2015 amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1310]
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: EU statistics, European Economic Area, data transmission, disclosure of information, pesticide, revision of an agreement




L_2016211EN.01008801.xml










4.8.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 211/88








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 127/2015
of 30 April 2015
         
amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1310]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1264/2014 of 26 November 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 408/2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides, as regards transmission format (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following is added in point 24da (Commission Regulation (EU) No 408/2011) of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement:

                  ‘, as amended by:






—



32014 R 1264: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1264/2014 of 26 November 2014 (OJ L 341, 27.11.2014, p. 6).’
                     






Article 2
The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1264/2014 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.


Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 May 2015, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).


Article 4
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 30 April 2015.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Gianluca GRIPPA
            





(1)  
            OJ L 341, 27.11.2014, p. 6.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 115/2015 of 30 April 2015 amending Annex XIII (Transport) and Annex XIX (Consumer Protection) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1298]
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, bus, consumer protection, indemnification, public transport, revision of an agreement, single market, transport safety




L_2016211EN.01007201.xml










4.8.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 211/72








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 115/2015
of 30 April 2015
         
amending Annex XIII (Transport) and Annex XIX (Consumer Protection) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1298]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Regulation (EU) No 181/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 concerning the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Annexes XIII and XIX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following point is inserted after point 36a (Directive 2003/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement:







‘36aa.



32011 R 0181: Regulation (EU) No 181/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 concerning the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 1).’







Article 2
The following indent is added in point 7f (Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XIX to the EEA Agreement:






‘—



32011 R 0181: Regulation (EU) No 181/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 1).’






Article 3
The text of Regulation (EU) No 181/2011 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.


Article 4
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 May 2015, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).


Article 5
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 30 April 2015.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Gianluca GRIPPA
            





(1)  
            OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 1.

(*1)  Constitutional requirements indicated.
Case C-205/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Sibiu (Romania) lodged on 30 April 2015 — Direcția Generală Regională a Finanțelor Publice (DGRFP) Brașov v Vasile Toma, Biroul Executorului Judecătoresc Horaţiu-Vasile Cruduleci
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU law - national law, access to the courts, equality before the law, legal person, natural person, public law, right to justice, stamp duty








C_2015245EN.01000601.xml










27.7.2015   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 245/6





Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Sibiu (Romania) lodged on 30 April 2015 — Direcția Generală Regională a Finanțelor Publice (DGRFP) Brașov v Vasile Toma, Biroul Executorului Judecătoresc Horaţiu-Vasile Cruduleci
(Case C-205/15)
(2015/C 245/08)
Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Judecătoria Sibiu

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Direcția Generală Regională a Finanțelor Publice (DGRFP) Brașov

Defendants: Vasile Toma, Biroul Executorului Judecătoresc Horaţiu-Vasile Cruduleci

Question referred

On a proper construction of Article 4(3) TEU and Articles 20, 21 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, do those provisions preclude legislation such as Article 16 of the [Romanian] Constitution and Article 30 of Government Emergency Order No 80/2103, which enshrines the principle of equality before the law only as between citizens as natural persons and not between citizens as natural persons and legal persons governed by public law, and which, a priori, exempts legal persons governed by public law from the requirement to pay stamping fees and to lodge a security in order to gain access to justice, whilst making access to justice by natural persons conditional upon payment of stamping fees/the lodging of a security?
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 108/2015 of 30 April 2015 amending Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1291]
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, guarantee, rail transport, revision of an agreement, services company, transport company, transport infrastructure




L_2016211EN.01006501.xml










4.8.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 211/65








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 108/2015
of 30 April 2015
         
amending Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1291]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/10 of 6 January 2015 on criteria for applicants for rail infrastructure capacity and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 870/2014 (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following point is inserted after point 37aa (deleted) of Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement:







‘37aaa.



32015 R 0010: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/10 of 6 January 2015 on criteria for applicants for rail infrastructure capacity and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 870/2014 (OJ L 3, 7.1.2015, p. 34).’







Article 2
The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/10 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.


Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 May 2015, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1), or on the day of the entry into force of the Decision of the EEA Joint Committee incorporating Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) into the EEA agreement, whichever is the later.


Article 4
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 30 April 2015.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Gianluca GRIPPA
            





(1)  
            OJ L 3, 7.1.2015, p. 34.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

(2)  To be published in the Official Journal.
EFTA Surveillance Authority notice on State aid recovery interest rates and reference/discount rates for the EFTA States applicable as from 1 January 2015 (Published in accordance with the rules on reference and discount rates set out in Part VII of the Authority’s State Aid Guidelines and Article 10 of the Authority’s Decision No 195/04/COL of 14 July 2004 (OJ L 139, 25.5.2006, p. 37 and EEA Supplement No 26/2006, 25.5.2006, p. 1))
Date: 2015-04-30
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, State aid, interest, reimbursement of aid








C_2015143EN.01000801.xml










30.4.2015   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 143/8





EFTA Surveillance Authority notice on State aid recovery interest rates and reference/discount rates for the EFTA States applicable as from 1 January 2015
(Published in accordance with the rules on reference and discount rates set out in Part VII of the Authority’s State Aid Guidelines and Article 10 of the Authority’s Decision No 195/04/COL of 14 July 2004 (OJ L 139, 25.5.2006, p. 37 and EEA Supplement No 26/2006, 25.5.2006, p. 1))
(2015/C 143/09)
Base rates are calculated in accordance with the Chapter on the method for setting reference and discount rates of the Authority’s State Aid Guidelines as amended by the Authority’s Decision No 788/08/COL of 17 December 2008. To obtain the applicable reference rates, appropriate margins shall be added to the base rate in accordance with the State Aid Guidelines.
Base rates have been determined as follows:








 


Iceland


Liechtenstein


Norway




1.1.2015 –


6,26


0,16


1,71