do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Action brought on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-13/17)
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: EFTA Court
Subjects: EU office or agency, European Economic Area, Iceland, application of EU law, disclosure of information, financial control, financial legislation, financial market, investment company, market supervision








C_2018067EN.01001201.xml










22.2.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 67/12





Action brought on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
(Case E-13/17)
(2018/C 67/12)
An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Carsten Zatschler, Catherine Howdle and Ingibjörg Ólöf Vilhjálmsdóttir, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35 Rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:






1.


Declare that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to make the Act referred to at point 31bbe of Annex IX to that Agreement (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/514 of 18 December 2014 on the information to be provided by competent authorities to the European Securities and Markets Authority pursuant to Article 67(3) of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council), as adapted by Protocol 1 to the EEA Agreement, part of its internal legal order.










2.


Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.




Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:






—


The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 12 September 2017, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 12 July 2017 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/514 of 18 December 2014 on the information to be provided by competent authorities to the European Securities and Markets Authority pursuant to Article 67(3) of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, as referred to at point 31bbe of Annex IX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).










—


The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.8706 — CVC/Providence/Skybox) (Text with EEA relevance. )
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: communications industry, consultancy, data protection, economic concentration, investment, investment company, mass media, merger control








C_2017440EN.01000201.xml










21.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 440/2





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.8706 — CVC/Providence/Skybox)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2017/C 440/03)
On 11 December 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 32017M8706. 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.8685 — Foncière des Régions/Marriott International/Le Méridien Hotel in Nice) (Text with EEA relevance. )
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, hotel industry, investment company, merger control, real estate business








C_2017440EN.01000102.xml










21.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 440/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.8685 — Foncière des Régions/Marriott International/Le Méridien Hotel in Nice)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2017/C 440/02)
On 11 December 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 32017M8685. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Action brought on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-12/17)
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: EFTA Court
Subjects: EU Member State, European Economic Area, Iceland, application of EU law, financial legislation, freedom to provide services, investment company, market supervision, right of establishment, third country








C_2018067EN.01001101.xml










22.2.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 67/11





Action brought on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
(Case E-12/17)
(2018/C 67/11)
An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Carsten Zatschler, Catherine Howdle and Ingibjörg Ólöf Vilhjálmsdóttir, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35 Rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:






1.


Declare that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to make the act referred to at point 31bbc of Annex IX to that Agreement (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 448/2013 of 15 May 2013 establishing a procedure for determining the Member State of reference of a non-EU AIFM pursuant to Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council), as adapted by Protocol 1 to the EEA Agreement, part of its legal order.










2.


Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.




Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:






—


The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 12 September 2017, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 12 July 2017 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 448/2013 of 15 May 2013 establishing a procedure for determining the Member State of reference of a non-EU AIFM pursuant to Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, as referred to at point 31bbc of Annex IX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).










—


The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.
Case C-715/17: Action brought on 21 December 2017 — European Commission v Republic of Poland
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU migration policy, Greece, Italy, aid to refugees, refugee, resettlement of persons, right of asylum








C_2018112EN.01001801.xml










26.3.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 112/18





Action brought on 21 December 2017 — European Commission v Republic of Poland
(Case C-715/17)
(2018/C 112/24)
Language of the case: Polish

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: A. Stobiecka-Kuik and G. Wils, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Republic of Poland

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


declare that, by failing to indicate at regular intervals, and at least every three months, the appropriate number of applicants who can be relocated swiftly to its territory starting from 16 March 2016, the Republic of Poland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5(2) of Council Decision (EU) 2015/1523 and under Article 5(2) of Council Decision (EU) 2015/1601, and has consequently failed to fulfil its other relocation obligations as set out in Article 5(4) to (11) of both of the aforementioned Council decisions;










—


order the Republic of Poland to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

A provisional emergency relocation scheme was established in two Council decisions adopted in September 2015, namely Council Decision (EU) 2015/1523 (1) and Council Decision (EU) 2015/1601, (2) pursuant to which the Member States undertook to relocate from Italy and Greece persons requiring international protection.
Those Council decisions place the Member States under an obligation to offer relocation places every three months with a view to ensuring a swift and orderly relocation procedure. Although almost all the other Member States have taken steps to fulfil their obligations in this matter, including relocation, Poland has not carried out any relocation, nor has it proposed any appropriate relocation place since December 2015.
On 16 June 2017 the Commission initiated a Treaty-infringement procedure against Poland.
Having considered the response of that Member State to be unsatisfactory, the Commission decided to proceed to the next stage of the Treaty-infringement procedure by sending the Republic of Poland a reasoned opinion on 26 July 2017.
Having also deemed the response to the reasoned opinion to be unsatisfactory, the European Commission has decided to bring proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union against the Republic of Poland in relation to the latter’s non-performance of its legal relocation obligations.


(1)  Council Decision (EU) 2015/1523 of 14 September 2015 establishing provisional measures in the area of international protection for the benefit of Italy and of Greece (OJ 2015 L 239, p. 146).

(2)  Council Decision (EU) 2015/1601 of 22 September 2015 establishing provisional measures in the area of international protection for the benefit of Italy and Greece (OJ 2015 L 248, p. 80).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.8360 — Imerys/Kerneos) (Text with EEA relevance. )
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building industry, economic concentration, merger control, mining industry








C_2017440EN.01000202.xml










21.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 440/2





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.8360 — Imerys/Kerneos)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2017/C 440/04)
On 19 June 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 32017M8360. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/25 of 21 December 2017 establishing a prohibition of fishing for plaice in areas VIIh, VIIj and VIIk by vessels flying the flag of France
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean, EU waters, France, catch area, catch by species, catch quota, fishing rights, sea fish, sea fishing, ship's flag








L_2018005EN.01002201.xml










10.1.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 5/22








            COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2018/25
of 21 December 2017
         
establishing a prohibition of fishing for plaice in areas VIIh, VIIj and VIIk by vessels flying the flag of France


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Union control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy (1), and in particular Article 36(2) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Council Regulation (EU) 2017/127 (2) lays down quotas for 2017.












(2)


According to the information received by the Commission, catches of the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein have exhausted the quota allocated for 2017.












(3)


It is therefore necessary to prohibit fishing activities for that stock,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1

Quota exhaustion

The fishing quota allocated to the Member State referred to in the Annex to this Regulation for the stock referred to therein for 2017 shall be deemed to be exhausted from the date set out in that Annex.


Article 2

Prohibitions

Fishing activities for the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein shall be prohibited from the date set out in that Annex. In particular it shall be prohibited to retain on board, relocate, tranship or land fish from that stock caught by those vessels after that date.


Article 3

Entry into force

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, 21 December 2017.


For the Commission,


On behalf of the President,

João AGUIAR MACHADO
            

Director-General


Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries






(1)  
            OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1.

(2)  Council Regulation (EU) 2017/127 of 20 January 2017 fixing for 2017 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters (OJ L 24, 28.1.2017, p. 1).




ANNEX






No


42/TQ127




Member State


France




Stock


PLE/7HJK.




Species


Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)




Zone


VIIh, VIIj and VIIk




Closing date


6.11.2017
Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/2427 of 21 December 2017 amending Decision 2010/231/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Somalia
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Somalia, UN specialised agency, UNO, arms trade, economic sanctions, foreign capital, humanitarian aid, international sanctions, non-governmental organisation, trade restriction




L_2017343EN.01007801.xml










22.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 343/78








            COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2017/2427
of 21 December 2017
         
amending Decision 2010/231/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Somalia


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,


Having regard to Council Decision 2010/231/CFSP of 26 April 2010 concerning restrictive measures against Somalia and repealing Common Position 2009/138/CFSP (1),


Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:







(1)


On 26 April 2010, the Council adopted Decision 2010/231/CFSP.












(2)


On 14 November 2017, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2385 (2017). That Resolution provides for an exemption from the assets freeze and from the prohibition on making funds, other financial assets and economic resources available for urgently needed humanitarian assistance in Somalia, by the United Nations, its specialized agencies or programmes, humanitarian organizations having observer status with the United Nations General Assembly that provide humanitarian assistance, and their implementing partners including bilaterally or multilaterally funded non-governmental organizations participating in the United Nations Humanitarian Response Plan for Somalia.












(3)


Decision 2010/231/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Article 6(6) of Decision 2010/231/CFSP is replaced by the following:


‘6.   Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the payment of funds, other financial assets or economic resources necessary to ensure the timely delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance in Somalia, by the United Nations, its specialised agencies or programmes, humanitarian organisations having observer status with the United Nations General Assembly that provide humanitarian assistance, and their implementing partners, including bilaterally or multilaterally funded non-governmental organizations participating in the United Nations Humanitarian Response Plan for Somalia.’.




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




Done at Brussels, 21 December 2017.


For the Council


The President

M. MAASIKAS
            





(1)  
            OJ L 105, 27.4.2010, p. 17.
Action brought on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-15/17)
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: EFTA Court
Subjects: European Economic Area, Iceland, application of EU law, financial legislation, financial market, freedom to provide services, investment company, market supervision, right of establishment, technical standard








C_2018067EN.01001401.xml










22.2.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 67/14





Action brought on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
(Case E-15/17)
(2018/C 67/14)
An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 21 December 2017 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Carsten Zatschler, Catherine Howdle and Ingibjörg Ólöf Vilhjálmsdóttir, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35 Rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:






1.


Declare that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to make the Act referred to at point 31bbd of Annex IX to that Agreement (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 694/2014 of 17 December 2013 supplementing Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards determining types of alternative investment fund managers), as adapted by Protocol 1 to the EEA Agreement, part of its internal legal order.










2.


Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.




Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:






—


The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 12 September 2017, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 12 July 2017 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 694/2014 of 17 December 2013 supplementing Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards determining types of alternative investment fund managers, as referred to at point 31bbd of Annex IX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).










—


The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.
Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
Date: 2017-12-21
Institutions: Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission
Subjects: Thailand, anti-dumping duty, food preserving, import (EU), maize, originating product, prepared foodstuff








C_2017440EN.01002101.xml










21.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 440/21





Notice of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
(2017/C 440/10)
1.   As provided for in Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union (1), the Commission gives notice that, unless a review is initiated in accordance with the following procedure, the anti-dumping measures mentioned below will expire on the date mentioned in the table below.
2.   Procedure

Union producers may lodge a written request for a review. This request must contain sufficient evidence that the expiry of the measures would be likely to result in a continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury. Should the Commission decide to review the measures concerned, importers, exporters, representatives of the exporting country and Union producers will then be provided with the opportunity to amplify, rebut or comment on the matters set out in the review request.
3.   Time limit

Union producers may submit a written request for a review on the above basis, to reach the European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade (Unit H-1), CHAR 4/39, 1049 Brussels, Belgium (2) at any time from the date of the publication of the present notice but no later than three months before the date mentioned in the table below.
4.   This notice is published in accordance with Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036.









Product


Country(ies) of origin or exportation


Measures


Reference


Date of expiry (3)





Certain prepared or preserved sweetcorn in kernels


Thailand


Anti-dumping duty


Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 875/2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain prepared or preserved sweetcorn in kernels originating in Thailand following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 (OJ L 244, 13.9.2013, p. 1).


14.9.2018






(1)  OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 21.

(2)  TRADE-Defence-Complaints@ec.europa.eu

(3)  The measure expires at midnight of the day mentioned in this column.