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Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.10097 – AMD/Xilinx) (Text with EEA relevance) 2021/C 210/04
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, electronic component, merger control, supplier








C_2021210EN.01001001.xml










3.6.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 210/10






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.10097 – AMD/Xilinx)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2021/C 210/04)

1.   
On 26 May 2021, 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:






—


Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (‘AMD’, United States),










—


Xilinx, Inc. (‘Xilinx’, United States).




AMD acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of Xilinx.
The concentration is accomplished by way of a merger between Throne Merger Sub, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of AMD, and Xilinx. Xilinx will survive the merger as a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of AMD.


2.   
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






—


for AMD: AMD is a publicly listed global semiconductor company. AMD is active primarily in the supply of central processing units (‘CPUs’), based on the x86 instruction set, and graphics processing units (‘GPUs’);










—


for Xilinx: Xilinx is a publicly listed global semiconductor company. Xilinx is active in the supply of field programmable gate arrays (‘FPGAs’), a chip that customers can program after fabrication to perform desired logic functions.






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. The following reference should always be specified:
M.10097 – AMD/Xilinx
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’).
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.10181 – Entega/Viessmann/EMS/EPS) (Text with EEA relevance) 2021/C 398/01
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: air conditioning, economic concentration, electrical energy, energy grid, energy production, energy saving, energy supply, heating, merger control, smart technology








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1.10.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 398/1






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.10181 – Entega/Viessmann/EMS/EPS)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2021/C 398/01)
On 3 June 2021, 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 German 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 32021M10181. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Case C-822/19: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia — Romania) — Direcţia Generală Regională a Finanţelor Publice Braşov, Agenţia Naţională de Administrare Fiscală — Direcţia Generală a Vămilor — Direcţia Regională Vamală Braşov — Biroul Vamal de Interior Sibiu v Flavourstream SRL (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Customs union — Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Tariff classification — Tariff subheadings 1702 90 95, 2912 49 00 and 3824 90 92 — Aqueous solution)
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, chemical product, common customs tariff, food additive, specification of tariff heading, sugar








C_2021289EN.01000901.xml










19.7.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 289/9






Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia — Romania) — Direcţia Generală Regională a Finanţelor Publice Braşov, Agenţia Naţională de Administrare Fiscală — Direcţia Generală a Vămilor — Direcţia Regională Vamală Braşov — Biroul Vamal de Interior Sibiu v Flavourstream SRL
(Case C-822/19) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Customs union - Common Customs Tariff - Combined Nomenclature - Tariff classification - Tariff subheadings 1702 90 95, 2912 49 00 and 3824 90 92 - Aqueous solution)
(2021/C 289/12)
Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellants: Direcţia Generală Regională a Finanţelor Publice Braşov, Agenţia Naţională de Administrare Fiscală — Direcţia Generală a Vămilor — Direcţia Regională Vamală Braşov — Biroul Vamal de Interior Sibiu

Respondent: Flavourstream SRL

Operative part of the judgment

The Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, in the version resulting from Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1101/2014 of 16 October 2014, must be interpreted as meaning that an aqueous solution obtained by thermal decomposition of dextrose, composed in particular of water-soluble aldehydes and ketones, does not come either under subheading 1702 90 95 of that nomenclature, which covers inter alia invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends with fructose content, in the dry state, of 50 % by weight, not classified under other subheadings of heading 1702 of that nomenclature, or under subheading 2912 49 00 thereof, which refers to ‘other’ aldehyde-alcohols, aldehyde-ethers, aldehyde-phenols and aldehydes with other oxygen function, but under subheading 3824 90 92 of that nomenclature, which refers to ‘Chemical products or preparations, predominantly composed of organic compounds, not elsewhere specified or included’, ‘in the form of a liquid at 20 oC’, provided that any potential nutritive value of that solution is merely incidental to that solution’s function as a chemical product and food additive.


(1)  OJ C 54, 17.2.2020.
Case C-914/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Ministero della Giustizia v GN (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Principle of equal treatment in employment and occupation — Directive 2000/78/EC — Article 6(1) — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 21 — Prohibition of all discrimination on the basis of age — National legislation setting 50 years of age as the age limit for access to the profession of notary — Justification)
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: access to a profession, age discrimination, equal treatment, notary, professional qualifications








C_2021289EN.01001101.xml










19.7.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 289/11






Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Ministero della Giustizia v GN
(Case C-914/19) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Principle of equal treatment in employment and occupation - Directive 2000/78/EC - Article 6(1) - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Article 21 - Prohibition of all discrimination on the basis of age - National legislation setting 50 years of age as the age limit for access to the profession of notary - Justification)
(2021/C 289/14)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Stato

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: Ministero della Giustizia

Respondent: GN

Intervening parties: HM, JL, JJ

Operative part of the judgment

Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 6(1) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which sets 50 years of age as the age limit for participation in the competition for access to the profession of notary, in so far as such legislation does not appear to pursue the aims of ensuring that that profession is practised in a stable manner for a significant period before retirement, of safeguarding the proper functioning of notarial privileges and of facilitating the natural turnover and rejuvenation of that profession and, in any event, goes beyond what is necessary to achieve those aims, which is a matter for the referring court to determine.


(1)  OJ C 87, 16.3.2020.
Case C-76/20: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad — Varna — Bulgaria) — ‘BalevBio’ EOOD v Teritorialna direktsia Severna morska, Agentsia ‘Mitnitsi’ (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common customs tariff — Tariff classification — Combined Nomenclature — Goods made of different materials — Plant fibres — Melamine resin — Headings 3924 and 4419 — Goods described as ‘bamboo beakers’)
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, bonded wood, specification of tariff heading








C_2021289EN.01001302.xml










19.7.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 289/13






Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad — Varna — Bulgaria) — ‘BalevBio’ EOOD v Teritorialna direktsia Severna morska, Agentsia ‘Mitnitsi’
(Case C-76/20) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common customs tariff - Tariff classification - Combined Nomenclature - Goods made of different materials - Plant fibres - Melamine resin - Headings 3924 and 4419 - Goods described as ‘bamboo beakers’)
(2021/C 289/18)
Language of the case: Bulgarian

Referring court

Administrativen sad — Varna

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant:‘BalevBio’ EOOD

Defendant: Teritorialna direktsia Severna morska, Agentsia ‘Mitnitsi’

Intervener: Okrazhna prokuratura — Varnenska

Operative part of the judgment

The Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, as amended by Commission Implementing Regulation 2016/1821 of 6 October 2016, must be interpreted as meaning that goods described as ‘bamboo beakers’, made up of 72,33 % plant fibres and 25,2 % melamine resin, must, subject to the referring court’s assessment of all the facts available to it, be classified under heading 3924 of that nomenclature, in particular under subheading 3924 10 00.


(1)  OJ C 161, 11.5.2020.
Prior notification of a concentration Case M.10329 — Fairfax/Eurolife Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance) 2021/C 210/07
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, holding company, indemnity insurance, investment company, life assurance, merger control, personal accident insurance, property insurance, reinsurance








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3.6.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 210/14






Prior notification of a concentration
Case M.10329 — Fairfax/Eurolife
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2021/C 210/07)

1.   
On 27 May 2021, 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:






—


Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (Fairfax, Canada),










—


Eurolife FFH Insurance Group Holdings S.A. (Eurolife, Greece).




Fairfax acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of Eurolife.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.


2.   
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






—


for Fairfax: a holding company active in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and investment management,










—


for Eurolife: a holding company active in life and non-life insurance and reinsurance and insurance distribution in Greece and Romania.






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 the 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:
Case M.10329 — Fairfax/Eurolife
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.
Case C-210/20: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Rad Service Srl Unipersonale, Cosmo Ambiente Srl, Cosmo Scavi Srl v Del Debbio SpA, Gruppo Sei Srl, Ciclat Val di Cecina Soc. Coop., DAF Costruzioni stradali Srl (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public procurement of service, supply and works contracts — Directive 2014/24/EU — Conduct of the tendering procedure — Choice of participants and award of contracts — Article 63 — Tenderer relying on the capacities of another entity in order to meet the requirements of the contracting authority — Article 57(4), (6) and (7) — Untruthful declarations submitted by that entity — Exclusion of that tenderer without requiring or permitting it to replace that entity — Principle of proportionality)
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: award of contract, freedom to provide services, invitation to tender, principle of proportionality, right of establishment, tendering








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19.7.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 289/15






Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Rad Service Srl Unipersonale, Cosmo Ambiente Srl, Cosmo Scavi Srl v Del Debbio SpA, Gruppo Sei Srl, Ciclat Val di Cecina Soc. Coop., DAF Costruzioni stradali Srl
(Case C-210/20) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Public procurement of service, supply and works contracts - Directive 2014/24/EU - Conduct of the tendering procedure - Choice of participants and award of contracts - Article 63 - Tenderer relying on the capacities of another entity in order to meet the requirements of the contracting authority - Article 57(4), (6) and (7) - Untruthful declarations submitted by that entity - Exclusion of that tenderer without requiring or permitting it to replace that entity - Principle of proportionality)
(2021/C 289/21)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Stato

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Rad Service Srl Unipersonale, Cosmo Ambiente Srl, Cosmo Scavi Srl

Defendants: Del Debbio SpA, Gruppo Sei Srl, Ciclat Val di Cecina Soc. Coop., DAF Costruzioni stradali Srl

other party: Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale USL Toscana Centro

Operative part of the judgment

Article 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC, read in conjunction with Article 57(4)(h) of that directive and in the light of the principle of proportionality, must be interpreted as precluding national legislation under which the contracting authority must automatically exclude a tenderer from a public procurement procedure in the case where an ancillary undertaking on whose capacities that tenderer intends to rely made an untruthful declaration as to the existence of criminal convictions that have become final, without being able to require or, at the very least, in such a case, permit that tenderer to replace that entity.


(1)  OJ C 279, 24.8.2020.
Euro exchange rates (Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.) 2 June 2021 2021/C 210/02
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








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3.6.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 210/7






Euro exchange rates (1)

2 June 2021
(2021/C 210/02)

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,2186 




JPY


Japanese yen


133,72 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4365 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,86125 




SEK


Swedish krona


10,0898 




CHF


Swiss franc


1,0982 




ISK


Iceland króna


146,10 




NOK


Norwegian krone


10,1393 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,465 




HUF


Hungarian forint


346,06 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,4653 




RON


Romanian leu


4,9208 




TRY


Turkish lira


10,4641 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,5756 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,4705 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


9,4555 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,6843 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,6129 




KRW


South Korean won


1 356,11 




ZAR


South African rand


16,7269 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,7812 




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,5043 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


17 391,63 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


5,0267 




PHP


Philippine peso


58,312 




RUB


Russian rouble


89,5138 




THB


Thai baht


37,959 




BRL


Brazilian real


6,2891 




MXN


Mexican peso


24,3207 




INR


Indian rupee


89,0830 






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Case C-762/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija — Latvia) — ‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA v ‘Melons’ SIA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Legal protection of databases — Directive 96/9/EC — Article 7 — Sui generis right of makers of databases — Prohibition on any third party to ‘extract’ or ‘re-utilise’, without the maker’s permission, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of the database — Database freely accessible on the internet — Meta search engine specialising in job advertisement searches — Extraction and/or re-utilisation of the contents of a database — Risk to the substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the content of a database)
Date: 2021-06-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Internet site, database, database management system, hypertext, intellectual property, search engine, text and data mining








C_2021289EN.01000801.xml










19.7.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 289/8






Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija — Latvia) — ‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA v ‘Melons’ SIA
(Case C-762/19) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Legal protection of databases - Directive 96/9/EC - Article 7 - Sui generis right of makers of databases - Prohibition on any third party to ‘extract’ or ‘re-utilise’, without the maker’s permission, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of the database - Database freely accessible on the internet - Meta search engine specialising in job advertisement searches - Extraction and/or re-utilisation of the contents of a database - Risk to the substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the content of a database)
(2021/C 289/10)
Language of the case: Latvian

Referring court

Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant:‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA

Defendant:‘Melons’ SIA

Operative part of the judgment

Article 7(1) and (2) of Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases must be interpreted as meaning that an internet search engine specialising in searching the contents of databases, which copies and indexes the whole or a substantial part of a database freely accessible on the internet and then allows its users to search that database on its own website according to criteria relevant to its content, is ‘extracting’ and ‘re-utilising’ that content within the meaning of that provision, which may be prohibited by the maker of such a database where those acts adversely affect its investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of that content, namely that they constitute a risk to the possibility of redeeming that investment through the normal operation of the database in question, which it is for the referring court to verify.


(1)  OJ C 423, 16.12.2019.