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Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.7925 — Newell Rubbermaid/Jarden) — Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: consumer goods, economic concentration, household electrical appliance, merger control, miscellaneous industries, wholesale trade








C_2016089EN.01000901.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/9





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.7925 — Newell Rubbermaid/Jarden)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2016/C 89/12)






1.


On 26 February 2016, 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 Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (‘Newell Rubbermaid’, USA) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of the undertaking Jarden Corporation (‘Jarden’, USA) by way of purchase of shares and exchange of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
—   for Newell Rubbermaid: global marketer of consumer and commercial products operating in five business segments: (i) tools, (ii) commercial products, (iii) writing products, (iv) baby and parenting products, and (v) home solutions products,
—   for Jarden: global marketer of consumer products operating in three business segments: (i) branded consumables, (ii) outdoor solutions, and (iii) consumer solutions.










3.


On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the 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 Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in this 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 M.7925 — Newell Rubbermaid/Jarden, to the following address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË










(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’).

(2)  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
Calls for proposals under the work programme for grants in the field of the trans-European telecommunication networks under the Connecting Europe Facility for the period 2014-2020 (Commission Implementing Decision C(2016) 1225)
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, EU programme, exchange of information, invitation to tender, registration of a company, social security, telecommunications, tendering, trans-European network








C_2016089EN.01000801.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/8





Calls for proposals under the work programme for grants in the field of the trans-European telecommunication networks under the Connecting Europe Facility for the period 2014-2020
(Commission Implementing Decision C(2016) 1225)
(2016/C 89/11)
The European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, is hereby launching three calls for proposals in order to award grants to projects in accordance with the priorities and objectives defined in the work programme for 2016 in the field of the trans-European telecommunication networks under the Connecting Europe Facility for the period 2014-2020.
Proposals are invited for the following three calls:

CEF-TC-2016-1: Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS)

CEF-TC-2016-1: Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI)

CEF-TC-2016-1: eProcurement
The total indicative budget available for proposals selected under these calls is EUR 32 million.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 19 May 2016.
The respective calls documentation is available on the CEF Telecom website:
https://ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-europe-facility/cef-telecom/apply-funding/2016-cef-telecom-calls-proposals
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.7937 — Computer Science Corporation/Xchanging) — Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, information technology industry, merger control, provision of services








C_2016089EN.01001101.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/11





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.7937 — Computer Science Corporation/Xchanging)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2016/C 89/14)






1.


On 29 February 2016, 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 Computer Science Corporation (‘CSC’, USA) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Xchanging plc (‘Xchanging’, UK) by way of public bid announced on 9 December 2015.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
—   for CSC: provision on a global scale of IT services across a range of industries covering chemicals, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, agriculture and manufacturing, public sector services and technology to customers in the private and public sectors;
—   for Xchanging: provision of business processing, technology and procurement services internationally for customers in the accounting and procurement, financial services and insurance sectors.










3.


On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the 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 Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in this 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 M.7937 — Computer Science Corporation/Xchanging, to the following address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË










(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’).

(2)  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.7898 — Arauco/Sonae Indústria/Tafisa) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, merger control, wood industry








C_2016089EN.01000101.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.7898 — Arauco/Sonae Indústria/Tafisa)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2016/C 89/01)
On 26 February 2016, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in the English language 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/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32016M7898. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.7873 — Worldline/Equens/PaySquare) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, electronic money, financial services, merger control








C_2016089EN.01001001.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/10





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.7873 — Worldline/Equens/PaySquare)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2016/C 89/13)






1.


On 26 February 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Worldline S.A. (‘Worldline’ France), ultimately controlled by Atos S.E. (‘Atos’, France) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of Equens S.E., including its subsidiary PaySquare (‘together Equens’, the Netherlands), by way of purchase of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
—   for Worldline: payments and transactional services, including merchant acquiring, acquiring processing, online banking, issuing processing and payment software licensing, provision of point of sale terminals and related services, mainly in the EEA,
—   for Equens: provision of the full value chain of both payment processing and card processing services including merchant acquiring, acquiring processing in the EEA.










3.


On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the 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 email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7873 — Worldline/Equens/PaySquare to the following address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË










(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’).
Notice for the attention of certain persons subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP and in Council Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Iran, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person








C_2016089EN.01000301.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/3





Notice for the attention of certain persons subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP and in Council Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran
(2016/C 89/04)
The following information is brought to the attention of Mr. AHMADI-MOQADDAM (No. 1), Mr. ALLAHKARAL Hossein (No. 2), Mr FAZLI Ali (No. 4), Mr. MOTLAGH Bharam-Hosseini (No. 8), Mr. RADAN Ahmad-Reza (No. 10), Mr. SHARIATI Seyeed Hassan (No. 14), Mr. HADDAD Hassan (No. 16), Mr. SOLTANI Hodjatoleslam Seyed Mohammed (No. 17), Mr. PIR-ABASSI Abbas (No. 23), Mr. MORTAZAVI Amir (No. 24), Mr. SHARIFI Malek Adjar (No. 26), Mr. AKBARSHAHI Ali-Reza (No. 34), Mr. HABIBI Mohammad Reza (No. 40), Mr. JAVANI Yadollah (No. 43), Mr. OMIDI Mehrdad (No. 50), Mr. BAKHTIARI Seyyed Morteza (No. 59), Mr. MOSLEHI Heydar (No. 61), Mr. KAZEMI Toraj (No. 64), Mr. MORTAZAVI Seyyed Solat (No.69), Mr. FAHRADI Ali (No. 73) persons appearing in the Annex to Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP (1) and in Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) 359/2011 (2) concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran.
The Council intends to maintain the restrictive measures against the above-mentioned persons with new statements of reasons. Those persons are hereby informed that they may submit a request to the Council to obtain the intended statements of reasons for their designation, before 11 March 2016, to the following address:





Council of the European Union




General Secretariat




DG C 1C




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




E-mail: sanctions@consilium.europa.eu.




Any observations received before 18 March 2016 will be taken into account for the purpose of the Council's periodic review, in accordance with Article 3 of Decision 2011/235/CFSP and Article 12(4) of Regulation (EU) No 359/2011.


(1)  OJ L 100, 14.4.2011, p. 51.

(2)  OJ L 100, 14.4.2011, p. 1.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.7938 — Catterton/L Companies) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: catering industry, clothing industry, economic concentration, electronics industry, investment company, merger control, real estate business, retail trade, shipbuilding, telecommunications industry








C_2016089EN.01000201.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/2





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.7938 — Catterton/L Companies)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2016/C 89/03)
On 1 March 2016, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in the English language 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/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32016M7938. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.7914 — KKR & Co./Webhelp SAS) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, information technology industry, investment company, merger control








C_2016089EN.01000102.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.7914 — KKR & Co./Webhelp SAS)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2016/C 89/02)
On 1 March 2016, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in English language 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/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32016M7914. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Special Report No 24/2015 — ‘Tackling intra-Community VAT fraud: More action needed’
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Court of Auditors
Subjects: European tax cooperation, VAT, administrative cooperation, audit, border control, fight against crime, fraud, fraud against the EU, organised crime, tax offence








C_2016089EN.01000701.xml










5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/7





Special Report No 24/2015
‘Tackling intra-Community VAT fraud: More action needed’
(2016/C 89/10)
The European Court of Auditors hereby informs you that Special Report No 24/2015 ‘Tackling intra-Community VAT fraud: More action needed’ 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:





European Court of Auditors




Publications (PUB)




12, rue Alcide De Gasperi




1615 Luxembourg




LUXEMBOURG




Tel. +352 4398-1




Email eca-info@eca.europa.eu




or by filling in an electronic order form on EU-Bookshop.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2016-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate








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5.3.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 89/5





Euro exchange rates (1)

4 March 2016
(2016/C 89/06)

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,0970




JPY


Japanese yen


124,77




DKK


Danish krone


7,4609




GBP


Pound sterling


0,77483




SEK


Swedish krona


9,3345




CHF


Swiss franc


1,0898




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


9,3830




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558




CZK


Czech koruna


27,058




HUF


Hungarian forint


309,31




PLN


Polish zloty


4,3313




RON


Romanian leu


4,4663




TRY


Turkish lira


3,2027




AUD


Australian dollar


1,4859




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,4717




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,5192




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,6223




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,5150




KRW


South Korean won


1 319,78




ZAR


South African rand


17,1275




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,1480




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,5940




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


14 409,10




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,5100




PHP


Philippine peso


51,325




RUB


Russian rouble


80,1674




THB


Thai baht


38,823




BRL


Brazilian real


4,0834




MXN


Mexican peso


19,5613




INR


Indian rupee


73,5910






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