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Case T-783/17: Action brought on 1 December 2017 — GE Healthcare v Commission
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: drug surveillance, equal treatment, market approval, medicinal product, principle of proportionality








C_2018042EN.01003401.xml










5.2.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 42/34





Action brought on 1 December 2017 — GE Healthcare v Commission
(Case T-783/17)
(2018/C 042/48)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: GE Healthcare A/S (Oslo, Norway) (represented by: D. Scannell, Barrister, G. Castle and S. Oryszczuk, Solicitors)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


annul the European Commission’s decision C(2017) 7941 final of 23 November 2017 suspending the applicant’s marketing authorisations for Omniscan (INN gadodiamide);










—


order the defendant to pay the applicant’s legal and other costs and expenses in relation to the present matter.





Pleas in law and main arguments

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






1.


First plea in law, alleging that the contested decision infringes Article 116 of Directive 2001/83/EC (1)











2.


Second plea in law, alleging that the contested decision infringes the precautionary principle.










3.


Third plea in law, alleging that the contested decision breaches the principle of non-discrimination.










4.


Fourth plea in law, alleging that the contested decision is in any event disproportionate.










5.


Fifth plea in law, alleging that the contested decision infringes the general principle of good administration.






(1)  Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ 2001 L 311, p. 67).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.8670 — CDPQ/GE/JV) (Text with EEA relevance. )
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aircraft, economic concentration, financial services, insurance, investment company, merger control, pension scheme, vehicle rental








C_2017409EN.01000101.xml










1.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 409/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.8670 — CDPQ/GE/JV)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2017/C 409/01)
On 17 November 2017, 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 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 32017M8670. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2217 of 1 December 2017 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: European Commission, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments
Subjects: Iraq, economic sanctions, insurance company, international sanctions, legal person, trade restriction








L_2017318EN.01002301.xml










2.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 318/23








            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/2217
of 1 December 2017
         
amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2465/96 (1), and in particular Article 11(b) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 lists public bodies, corporations and agencies and natural and legal persons, bodies and entities of the previous government of Iraq covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources that were located outside Iraq on the date of 22 May 2003 under that Regulation.












(2)


On 24 November 2017, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to remove one entry from the list of persons or entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.












(3)


Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 1 December 2017.


For the Commission,


On behalf of the President,


Head of the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments






(1)  
            OJ L 169, 8.7.2003, p. 6.




ANNEX
In Annex III to Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003, the following entry is deleted:







‘2.


Iraq Re-insurance Company, Al Khalani Square, Baghdad, Iraq.’
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.8667 — Deutsche Alternative Asset Management/M&amp;G Alternatives Investment Management/JV) (Text with EEA relevance. )
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, financial services, investment company, merger control, rail transport, subsidiary, vehicle rental








C_2017409EN.01000102.xml










1.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 409/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.8667 — Deutsche Alternative Asset Management/M&G Alternatives Investment Management/JV)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2017/C 409/02)
On 24 November 2017, 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 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 32017M8667. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Notice for the attention of AL-AQSA MARTYR’S BRIGADE, a group included on the list provided for in Article 2(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism (see the Annex to Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1420)
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: economic sanctions, international sanctions, legal person, terrorism








C_2017409EN.01000201.xml










1.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 409/2





Notice for the attention of AL-AQSA MARTYR’S BRIGADE, a group included on the list provided for in Article 2(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism
(see the Annex to Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1420)
(2017/C 409/03)
The following information is brought to the attention of AL-AQSA MARTYR’S BRIGADE, a group listed in the Annex of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1420 (1).
Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 (2) provides for a freezing of all funds, other financial assets and economic resources belonging to the group concerned and that no funds, other financial assets and economic resources may be made available to it, whether directly or indirectly.
The Council has been provided with new information relevant to the listing of the abovementioned group. Having considered this new information, the Council has amended the statements of reasons accordingly.
The group concerned may submit a request to obtain the updated Council’s statements of reasons for maintaining it on the abovementioned list to the following address:





Council of the European Union (Attn: COMET designations)




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




Email: sanctions@consilium.europa.eu




Such a request should be submitted by 5 December 2017.
The group concerned may submit at any time a request to the Council, together with any supporting documentation, that the decision to include and maintain it on the list should be reconsidered, to the address provided above. Such requests will be considered when they are received. In this respect, the attention of the group concerned is drawn to the regular review by the Council of the list according to Article 1(6) of Common Position 2001/931/CFSP (3). In order for request to be considered at the next review, it should be submitted by 15 December 2017.
The attention of the group concerned is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s) as listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds for essential needs or specific payments in accordance with Article 5(2) of that Regulation.


(1)  OJ L 204, 5.8.2017, p. 3.

(2)  OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p. 70.

(3)  OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p. 93.
Case C-676/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Ploiești (Romania) lodged on 1 December 2017 — Oana Mădălina Călin v Direcţia Regională a Finanţelor Publice Ploieşti — Administraţia Judeţeană a Finanţelor Publice Dâmboviţa, Statul Român — Ministerul Finanţelor Public, and Administraţia Fondului pentru Mediu
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: administrative procedure, appeal, equal treatment, limitation of legal proceedings, principle of legal certainty








C_2018063EN.01000801.xml










19.2.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 63/8





Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Ploiești (Romania) lodged on 1 December 2017 — Oana Mădălina Călin v Direcţia Regională a Finanţelor Publice Ploieşti — Administraţia Judeţeană a Finanţelor Publice Dâmboviţa, Statul Român — Ministerul Finanţelor Public, and Administraţia Fondului pentru Mediu
(Case C-676/17)
(2018/C 063/11)
Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Curtea de Apel Ploiești

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: Oana Mădălina Călin

Respondents: Direcţia Regională a Finanţelor Publice Ploieşti — Administraţia Judeţeană a Finanţelor Publice Dâmboviţa, Statul Român — Ministerul Finanţelor Public, and Administraţia Fondului pentru Mediu

Question referred

Can Article 4(3) TEU, which refers to the principle of sincere cooperation, Articles 17, 20, 21 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 110 TFEU, the principle of legal certainty and the principles of equivalence and effectiveness stemming from the principle of procedural autonomy be interpreted as precluding national legislation, namely Article 21(2) of Law No 554/2004 on administrative proceedings as interpreted by Ruling No 45/2016 of the Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție (ICCJ) — Completul pentru dezlegarea unor chestiuni de drept (High Court of Cassation and Justice — Panel for the Resolution of Points of Law), under which the period within which a request for revision based on Article 21(2) of Law No 554/2004 may be submitted is one month from the date of notification of the final judgment subject to revision?
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








C_2017409EN.01000301.xml










1.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 409/3





Euro exchange rates (1)

30 November 2017
(2017/C 409/04)

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,1849 




JPY


Japanese yen


133,08 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4417 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,87985 




SEK


Swedish krona


9,9208 




CHF


Swiss franc


1,1699 




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


9,8398 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,491 




HUF


Hungarian forint


312,77 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,1955 




RON


Romanian leu


4,6475 




TRY


Turkish lira


4,6638 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,5659 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,5267 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


9,2524 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,7319 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,5986 




KRW


South Korean won


1 287,26 




ZAR


South African rand


16,1263 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,8377 




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,5550 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


16 035,25 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,8466 




PHP


Philippine peso


59,629 




RUB


Russian rouble


69,1940 




THB


Thai baht


38,643 




BRL


Brazilian real


3,8668 




MXN


Mexican peso


22,0035 




INR


Indian rupee


76,3875 






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.8705 — BC Partners/CeramTec) — Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance. )
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ceramics, economic concentration, investment company, merger control, parent company








C_2017409EN.01001401.xml










1.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 409/14





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.8705 — BC Partners/CeramTec)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2017/C 409/07)






1.


On 17 November 2017, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1).
This notification concerns the following undertakings:






—


BC Partners Holdings Limited,










—


CeramTec Holding GmbH.




BC Partners Holdings Limited acquire — indirectly through the fund BC European Capital X, acting by its general partner BC European Capital Management X Limited — within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of CeramTec Holding GmbH.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
—   for BC Partners Holdings Limited: private equity firm,
—   for CeramTec Holding GmbH: ultimate parent company of CeramTec group of companies active in the production of high-performance advanced ceramic materials and products.










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 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. The following reference should always be specified:
M.8705 — BC Partners/CeramTec
Observations can be sent to the Commission by email, by fax, or by post. Please use the contact details below:





Email: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu




Fax +32 22964301




Postal 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.
Commission communication concerning the implementation of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 552/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the European Air Traffic Management network (Publication of titles and references of Community specifications under the Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance. )
Date: 2017-12-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: air traffic, air traffic control, exchange of information, trans-European network








C_2017409EN.01000401.xml










1.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 409/4





Commission communication concerning the implementation of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 552/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the European Air Traffic Management network (1)


(Publication of titles and references of Community specifications under the Regulation)

(Text with EEA relevance)
(2017/C 409/05)








Organisation


Reference and title of the Community specification


Reference of superseded Community specification


Date of cessation of presumption of conformity of superseded Community specification




Eurocontrol (2)



Spec-0101 Edition 1.2 Eurocontrol Specification for the Initial Flight Plan (IFPL) (3)



Spec-0101 Edition 1.1


5.3.2017






(1)  OJ L 96, 31.3.2004, p. 26.

(2)  European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation: Rue de la Fusée 96, 1130 Brussels, Belgium, tel. +32 27299011, fax +32 27295190

(3)  http://www.eurocontrol.int/publications/initial-flight-plan-ifpl-specification