do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1856 of 31 October 2019 approving amendments to the specification for a Protected Designation of Origin or a Protected Geographical Indication (Izsáki Arany Sárfehér (PDO))
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Subjects: Hungary, Southern Alföld, designation of origin, labelling, product designation, sparkling wine, white wine








L_2019286EN.01000101.xml










7.11.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 286/1








            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/1856
of 31 October 2019
         
approving amendments to the specification for a Protected Designation of Origin or a Protected Geographical Indication (‘Izsáki Arany Sárfehér’ (PDO))


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (1), and in particular Article 99 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


The Commission has examined the application for the approval of amendments to the specification for the Protected Designation of Origin ‘Izsáki Arany Sárfehér’, sent by Hungary in accordance with Article 105 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.












(2)


The Commission has published the application for the approval of the amendments to the specification in the Official Journal of the European Union, as required by Article 97(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 (2).












(3)


No statement of objection has been received by the Commission under Article 98 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.












(4)


The amendments to the specification should therefore be approved in accordance with Article 99 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.












(5)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The amendments to the specification published in the Official Journal of the European Union regarding the name ‘Izsáki Arany Sárfehér’ (PDO) are hereby approved.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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, 31 October 2019.


For the Commission


On behalf of the President

Phil HOGAN
            

Member of the Commission






(1)  
            OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671.

(2)  
            OJ C 251, 26.7.2019. p. 7.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.9450 – PPG/TIL/JV) (Text with EEA relevance) 2020/C 217/04
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: container, economic concentration, harbour installation, investment company, maritime shipping, merger control, port traffic








C_2020217EN.01001201.xml










1.7.2020   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 217/12






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.9450 – PPG/TIL/JV)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2020/C 217/04)
On 31 October 2019, 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 32019M9450. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Case C-803/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 31 October 2019 — TN v WWK Lebensversicherung auf Gegenseitigkeit, VP
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: consumer information, contract terms, damages, insurance contract, insurance law, life assurance, tax rebate, termination of a contract








C_2020247EN.01000201.xml










27.7.2020   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 247/2






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 31 October 2019 — TN v WWK Lebensversicherung auf Gegenseitigkeit, VP
(Case C-803/19)
(2020/C 247/02)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Oberster Gerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: TN

Defendants: WWK Lebensversicherung auf Gegenseitigkeit, VP

Interested party: UO
By order of 28 May 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (Eighth Chamber) rules as follows:
Article 35(1) in conjunction with Article 36(1) of Directive 2002/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 concerning life assurance, and Article 185(1) in conjunction with Article 186(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II), must be interpreted as not precluding a national provision according to which, in the event of the policyholder’s withdrawal from the insurance contract, the tax on insurance premiums which is owed by the policyholder and collected by the insurer and paid to the State is excluded from those amounts which the insurer is required to repay to the policyholder — who must therefore claim a tax refund from the tax administration or possibly damages from the insurer — in so far as the procedural provisions laid down by the law applicable to the insurance contract with respect to the reclaiming of sums paid by way of insurance premium tax are not such as to call in question the effectiveness of the policyholder’s right of cancellation under EU law, which it is for the referring court to ascertain.
Call for proposals for support for information measures relating to the common agricultural policy (CAP) for 20202019/C 370/09
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Subjects: EU programme, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, dissemination of information, invitation to tender, public awareness campaign








C_2019370EN.01002901.xml










31.10.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 370/29







Call for proposals for support for information measures relating to the common agricultural policy (CAP) for 2020
(2019/C 370/09)

Notice is hereby given of the launch of a call for proposals for information measures relating to the CAP for the 2020 financial year.
Proposals are invited for the following call: IMCAP — Support for information measures relating to the common agricultural policy (CAP) for 2020
This call for proposals, including deadlines and budgets for the different activities, is available on the Funding & Tenders portal (https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/home), along with information on the related activities and instructions for applicants on how to submit proposals. All this information will be updated as necessary on the same portal.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.9543 — Diamond Transmission Corporation/Infrared Capital Partners/Chubu/Walney JV) (Text with EEA relevance) 2019/C 379/01
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, electrical energy, electricity supply, energy industry, gas supply, holding company, information technology industry, investment company, merger control, wind energy








C_2019379EN.01000101.xml










8.11.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 379/1






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.9543 — Diamond Transmission Corporation/Infrared Capital Partners/Chubu/Walney JV)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2019/C 379/01)
On 31 October 2019, 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 32019M9543. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Corrigendum to Decision (EU) 2019/1798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 appointing the European Chief Prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (Official Journal of the European Union L 274 of 28 October 2019)
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EU office or agency, administrator, appointment of members, public prosecutor's department, servant (EU)








LI2019279EN.01001101.xml










31.10.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


LI 279/11







Corrigendum to Decision 2019/1798of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 October 2019 appointing the European Chief Prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office

(
Official Journal of the European Union L 274 of 28 October 2019
)


On the cover, in the table of contents, and on page 1, in the title:
for:


                  ‘Decision 2019/1798of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 October 2019 appointing the European Chief Prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office’,

read:


                  ‘Decision (EU) 2019/1798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 appointing the European Chief Prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office’;

on page 2:
for:


                  ‘Done at Luxembourg, 14 October 2019.’,

read:


                  ‘Done at Strasbourg, 23 October 2019.’.
Case C-802/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof (Germany) lodged on 31 October 2019 — Company Z v Tax Office Y
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: basis of tax assessment, discount sale, equal treatment, health insurance, pharmaceutical product, pharmacy, tax exemption








C_2020045EN.01002001.xml










10.2.2020   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 45/20






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof (Germany) lodged on 31 October 2019 — Company Z v Tax Office Y
(Case C-802/19)
(2020/C 45/17)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesfinanzhof

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Company Z

Defendant: Tax Office Y

Questions referred







1.


Based on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 24 October 1996, Elida Gibbs, C-317/94 (EU:C:1996:400), is a pharmacy which supplies medicinal products to a statutory health insurance fund entitled to reduce the taxable amount as a result of a discount granted to the persons insured under a health insurance scheme?










2.


In the event that this is answered in the affirmative: Is it contrary to the principles of neutrality and equal treatment in the internal market if a pharmacy in the national territory is able to reduce the taxable amount, but a pharmacy which supplies the statutory health insurance fund by means of an intra-Community, tax-exempt supply from another Member State is not able to do so?
Case C-805/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Salzburg (Austria) lodged on 31 October 2019 — CT v VINI GmbH
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: paid leave, remuneration of work, termination of employment, working conditions








C_2020077EN.01001901.xml










9.3.2020   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 77/19






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Salzburg (Austria) lodged on 31 October 2019 — CT v VINI GmbH
(Case C-805/19)
(2020/C 77/28)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Landesgericht Salzburg

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: CT

Defendant: VINI GmbH

Question referred

Are Article 31 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 7(2) of Directive 2003/88/EC (1) (the Working Time Directive) to be interpreted as meaning that the rule of national law laid down in Paragraph 10(2) of the Urlaubsgesetz (Austrian Law on Annual Leave, ‘the UrlG’), under which a payment in lieu of annual leave in respect of the current (last) working year is not payable if the worker resigns prematurely, is not applicable?


(1)  Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time (OJ 2003 L 299, p. 9).
Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union2019/C 370/04
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, specification of tariff heading, toy industry




C_2019370EN.01000701.xml










31.10.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 370/7







Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union
(2019/C 370/04)

Pursuant to Article 9(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1), the Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union (2) are hereby amended as follows:

On page 412:



            9503 00 70 Other toys, put up in sets or outfits


The following text it inserted in the 4th paragraph, as a second hyphen (after the text ‘chalks,’):



            ‘— creativity kits/sets designed for children to make mosaics. They consist of pre-printed cardboard papers/cards and various self-adhesive ornaments to be attached to the cards (for example, small coloured pieces of foam and colourful plastic sequins). They may also contain other small articles, such as a stand. They are designed for the amusement of children and also for developing their colour and shape perception and their fine motor skills.
Examples of products:








 
            ’
         



(1)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1).

(2)  
            OJ C 119, 29.3.2019, p. 1.
EFTA Surveillance Authority notice on State aid recovery interest rates and reference/discount rates for the EFTA States applicable as from 1 October 2019 (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 2004OJ L 139, 25.5.2006, p. 37 and EEA Supplement No 26, 25.5.2006, p. 1.)2019/C 370/08
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, State aid, interest, reimbursement of aid








C_2019370EN.01002801.xml










31.10.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 370/28







EFTA Surveillance Authority notice on State aid recovery interest rates and reference/discount rates for the EFTA States applicable as from 1 October 2019
         


(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
                   (1))


(2019/C 370/08)

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




1.10.2019 –


4,93


−0,66 


1,72






(1)  
            OJ L 139, 25.5.2006, p. 37 and EEA Supplement No 26, 25.5.2006, p. 1.
Case C-801/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Upravni sud u Zagrebu (Croatia) lodged on 31 October 2019 — FRANCK d.d., Zagreb v Ministarstvo financija Republike Hrvatske, Samostalni sektor za drugostupanjski upravni postupak
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: VAT, claim, credit, financial services, negotiable instrument, provision of services, tax exemption








C_2020027EN.01002301.xml










27.1.2020   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 27/23






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Upravni sud u Zagrebu (Croatia) lodged on 31 October 2019 — FRANCK d.d., Zagreb v Ministarstvo financija Republike Hrvatske, Samostalni sektor za drugostupanjski upravni postupak
(Case C-801/19)
(2020/C 27/29)
Language of the case: Croatian

Referring court

Upravni sud u Zagrebu

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: FRANCK d.d., Zagreb

Defendant: Ministarstvo financija Republike Hrvatske, Samostalni sektor za drugostupanjski upravni postupak, Zagreb

Questions referred







1.


Can a service involving funds being made available by the applicant, which is not a financial institution, for payment of a one-off fee of 1 %, be regarded as ‘the granting and the negotiation of credit and the management of credit by the person granting it’ within the meaning of Article 135(1)(b) of the VAT Directive, (1) despite the fact that the applicant is not formally referred to as the lender in the contract?










2.


Is a bill of exchange, that is to say a security containing an obligation on the issuer to pay a specific amount of money to the person designated as the creditor in the security in question or to the person who subsequently acquired that the security in an manner prescribed by law, regarded as an ‘other negotiable instrument’ within the meaning of Article 135(1)(d) of the VAT Directive?










3.


Does the applicant’s service, by which, for a fee of 1 % of the amount of the bill of exchange charged to the issuer thereof, it transferred the bill of exchange obtained to a factoring company, and transferred the amount obtained from the factoring company to the issuer of the bill of exchange, and guaranteed to the factoring company that the issuer of the bill of exchange will pay the liability arising from the bill of exchange when it becomes due, constitute:






(a)


a service exempt from VAT under Article 135(1)(b) of the VAT Directive; or










(b)


a service exempt from VAT under Article 135(1)(d) of the VAT Directive? a










(1)  Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1).
Euro exchange ratesSource: reference exchange rate published by the ECB. 30 October 20192019/C 370/03
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








C_2019370EN.01000601.xml










31.10.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 370/6







Euro exchange rates (1)


            30 October 2019
         
(2019/C 370/03)


1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,1106 




JPY


Japanese yen


120,99 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4709 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,86200 




SEK


Swedish krona


10,8010 




CHF


Swiss franc


1,1032 




ISK


Iceland króna


138,10 




NOK


Norwegian krone


10,2488 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,512 




HUF


Hungarian forint


329,72 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,2629 




RON


Romanian leu


4,7577 




TRY


Turkish lira


6,3615 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,6199 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,4534 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,7080 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,7504 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,5141 




KRW


South Korean won


1 297,21 




ZAR


South African rand


16,5609 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,8371 




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,4606 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


15 600,04 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,6423 




PHP


Philippine peso


56,591 




RUB


Russian rouble


70,9556 




THB


Thai baht


33,580 




BRL


Brazilian real


4,4611 




MXN


Mexican peso


21,2538 




INR


Indian rupee


78,7705 






(1)  
            Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 272/2019 of 31 October 2019 amending Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement [2023/95]
Date: 2019-10-31
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, United Kingdom, air transport, carriage of goods, international transport, revision of an agreement, road transport, transport regulations, withdrawal from the EU




L_2023011EN.01005001.xml










12.1.2023   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 11/50








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 272/2019
of 31 October 2019
         
amending Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement [2023/95]


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) 2019/1795 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2019 amending Regulations (EU) 2019/501 and (EU) 2019/502 as regards their periods of application (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 is added in points 26f (Regulation (EU) 2019/501 of the European Parliament and of the Council) and 64d (Regulation (EU) 2019/502 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement:

                  ‘, as amended by:






—



32019 R 1795: Regulation (EU) 2019/1795 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2019 (OJ L 279, 31.10.2019, p. 1).’
                     






Article 2
The text of Regulation (EU) 2019/1795 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 31 October 2019, 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, 31 October 2019.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Gunnar PÁLSSON
            





(1)  
            OJ L 279, 31.10.2019, p. 1.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.