do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11143 – CMA CGM / BOLLORE LOGISTICS)
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: air transport, carriage for hire or reward, carriage of goods, economic concentration, land transport, logistics, maritime transport, merger control, parent company








C_202403676EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3676


7.6.2024






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11143 – CMA CGM / BOLLORE LOGISTICS)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/3676)

On 23 February 2024, 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) in conjunction with Article 6(2) 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 policy’ website of the Commission (https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search). 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 32024M11143. EUR-Lex is the online point of access to European Union law.






(1)  
            OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3676/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-111/24: Action brought on 23 February 2024 – Whitehorse Liquidity Partners v EUIPO – HIG Whitehorse Management (H.I.G. WHITEHORSE)
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, consultancy, financial services, registered trade mark, trade-mark law








C_202402773EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/2773


29.4.2024






Action brought on 23 February 2024 – Whitehorse Liquidity Partners v EUIPO – HIG Whitehorse Management (H.I.G. WHITEHORSE)


(Case T-111/24)

(C/2024/2773)
Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties


Applicant: Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, Inc. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) (represented by: S. Geerlings, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: HIG Whitehorse Management LLC (Miami, Florida, United States)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO


Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Trade mark at issue: European Union word mark H.I.G. WHITEHORSE – European Union trade mark No 11 882 073
         

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 December 2023 in Case R 123/2023-2

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


Annul the contested decision;










—


Revoke the trade mark at issue;










—


Order the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal to pay the costs of the proceedings before the Cancellation Division and the Board of Appeal.





Plea in law







—


Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.






ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/2773/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11381 –ALLIANZ / PIMCO / SILVER POINT / INCORA)
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: consultancy, credit, distributor, economic concentration, financial services, insurance, investment, investment company, merger control, supply chain








C_202402079EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/2079


7.3.2024






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11381 –ALLIANZ / PIMCO / SILVER POINT / INCORA)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/2079)

On 23 February 2024, 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 policy’ website of the Commission (https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search). 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 32024M11381. EUR-Lex is the online point of access to European Union law.






(1)  
            OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/2079/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-141/24, Direction régionale des finances publiques d’Ile de France et de Paris: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judiciaire de Nanterre (France) lodged on 23 February 2024 - TJ v Direction régionale des finances publiques d’Ile de France et de Paris
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: free movement of capital, limitation of legal proceedings, ownership, tax law, tax system








C_202403441EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3441


10.6.2024






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judiciaire de Nanterre (France) lodged on 23 February 2024 – TJ v Direction régionale des finances publiques d’Ile de France et de Paris


(Case C-141/24, Direction régionale des finances publiques d’Ile de France et de Paris)

(C/2024/3441)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Tribunal Judiciaire de Nanterre

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: TJ

Defendant: Direction régionale des finances publiques d’Ile de France et de Paris

Questions referred







1.


Must the principle of the free movement of capital guaranteed by Article 63 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union be interpreted as meaning that it permits the automatic taxation, as provided for in Article 755 of the Code général des impôts, of assets held abroad which have not been declared in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article L.23 C of the Livre des Procédures Fiscales, and the origin and manner of acquisition of which have not been established, although it results in the non-applicability of limitation periods where the taxpayer establishes that he or she acquired those assets during a time-barred period?










2.


If the answer to that question is in the negative, must it be inferred from this that any correction procedure based on the aforementioned provisions must be annulled, even if, in the case under review by the tax authorities, the non-applicability of limitation periods does not arise?






ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3441/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Euro exchange rates – 22 February 2024
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








C_202401147EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/1147


23.2.2024






Euro exchange rates (1)


            22 February 2024
         
(C/2024/1147)


1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,0844 




JPY


Japanese yen


163,12 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4540 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,85625 




SEK


Swedish krona


11,1740 




CHF


Swiss franc


0,9535 




ISK


Iceland króna


148,90 




NOK


Norwegian krone


11,3560 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,309 




HUF


Hungarian forint


386,88 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,3158 




RON


Romanian leu


4,9768 




TRY


Turkish lira


33,6091 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,6515 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,4618 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,4817 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,7497 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,4552 




KRW


South Korean won


1 438,77 




ZAR


South African rand


20,6686 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,7988 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


16 904,39 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


5,1796 




PHP


Philippine peso


60,434 




RUB


Russian rouble


 




THB


Thai baht


38,941 




BRL


Brazilian real


5,3499 




MXN


Mexican peso


18,5070 




INR


Indian rupee


89,8710 






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


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1147/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Corrigendum to Guideline (EU) 2024/419 of the European Central Bank of 18 January 2024 amending Guideline (EU) 2019/1265 on the euro short-term rate (€STR) (ECB/2019/19) (ECB/2024/1) (Official Journal of the European Union L, 2024/419, 30 January 2024)
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: European Central Bank
Subjects: Eurosystem, central bank, data collection, economic statistics, euro, euro area, financial statistics, financial transaction, interest, short-term credit








L_202490124EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series L













2024/419


23.2.2024






Corrigendum to Gudeline (EU) 2024/419 of the European Central Bank of 18 January 2024 amending Guideline (EU) 2019/1265 on the euro short-term rate (€STR) (ECB/2019/19) (ECB/2024/1)

(
Official Journal of the European Union L, 2024/419, 30 January 2024
)


On page 1, the title:
for:


                  ‘Gudeline (EU) 2024/419 of the European Central Bank of 18 January 2024 amending Guideline (EU) 2019/1265 on the euro short-term rate (€STR) (ECB/2019/19) (ECB/2024/1)’,

read:


                  ‘Guideline (EU) 2024/419 of the European Central Bank of 18 January 2024 amending Guideline (EU) 2019/1265 on the euro short-term rate (€STR) (ECB/2019/19) (ECB/2024/1)’.



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/guideline/2024/419/corrigendum/2024-02-23/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11405 – ULTIMA / BTB) – Candidate case for simplified procedure
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, energy industry, holding company, innovation, maritime shipping, mass media, merger control, real estate business, real estate market, steel








C_202401721EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/1721


23.2.2024






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.11405 – ULTIMA / BTB)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/1721)


1.   
On 14 February 2024 the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 and following a referral pursuant to Article 4(5) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1).
This notification concerns the following undertakings:






—


Ultima Holding SA, (‘Ultima’, Luxembourg), ultimately controlled by GIA Beni Stabili SRL (‘GIA Beni’, Italy) and GIA Partecipazioni SRL (‘GIA Partecipazioni’, Italy),










—


BTB Holding Investments SA (‘BTB’, Luxembourg), ultimately controlled by BB Holding Investment Sàrl (‘BB’, Luxembourg).




Ultima will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of BTB.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.


2.   
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are the following:






—


Ultima is a financial holding company having limited business activities in the media sector and in real estate.










—


BTB is a financial holding company active in the energy, steel, shipping, and innovation 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 treatment for certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (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.11405 – ULTIMA / BTB
Observations can be sent to the Commission by email or by post. Please use the contact details below:
Email: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu
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 160, 5.5.2023, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1721/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-146/24 P: Appeal brought on 23 February 2024 by Fugro NV against the order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) delivered on 15 December 2023 in Case T-143/23, Fugro v Council
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: admissibility, corporation tax, group of companies, international transport, maritime shipping, multinational enterprise, tax avoidance, tax harmonisation








C_202402737EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/2737


29.4.2024






Appeal brought on 23 February 2024 by Fugro NV against the order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) delivered on 15 December 2023 in Case T-143/23, Fugro v Council


(Case C-146/24 P)

(C/2024/2737)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Appellant: Fugro NV (represented by: T.C. Gerverdinck, advocaat)

Other party to the proceedings: Council of the European Union

Form of order sought

The appellant claims that the Court should:






—


set aside the order under appeal;










—


to the extent that the Court considers the state of proceedings so permit, reject the plea of inadmissibility, declare the action admissible and refer the case back to the General Court to rule on the substance or, in the alternative, declare the contested measure (1) to be of individual concern to the appellant and refer the case back to the General Court to rule on direct concern or join it to the substance;










—


order the Council to pay the costs, including the costs before the General Court.





Pleas in law and main arguments

The appellant relies on one plea in law alleging that the General Court erred in law, in particular in paragraphs 40 to 44, by misinterpreting the concept of an ‘individual concern’ within the meaning of the second limb of Article 263(4) TFEU.


(1)  Council Directive (EU) 2022/2523 of 14 December 2022 on ensuring a global minimum level of taxation for multinational enterprise groups and large-scale domestic groups in the Union (OJ 2022 L 328, p. 1).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/2737/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
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, entities, and bodies in view of the situation in Iran
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Iran, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person








C_202401802EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/1802


23.2.2024






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, entities, and bodies in view of the situation in Iran
(C/2024/1802)

The following information is brought to the attention of FAZLI Ali (no. 4), MOTLAGH Bahram Hosseini (no. 8), RADAN Ahmad-Reza (no. 10), TAEB Hossein (no. 13), JOKAR Mohammad Saleh (no. 45), SALARKIA Mahmoud (no. 51), JAFARI Asadollah (no. 83) MUSAVI-TABAR Seyyed Reza (no. 86), ZIAEI Gholamreza (no. 93), SHAHVARPOUR Hassan (no. 94), KOCHZAEI Ebrahim (a.k.a. KOCHZAI Ebrahim, KOUCHAKZAEI Ebrahim) (no. 117), TAHERI Ahmad (no. 118), SOURI Majid (no. 144), KARIMI Mohsen (no. 145), HEYDARNIA Alireza (no. 146), SAJJADI Seyed Hamid Hazaveh (no. 156), NIKVARZ Mohsen (no. 224),
persons appearing in the Annex to Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP (1) and in Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 (2) concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities, and bodies in view of the situation in Iran.
The Council envisages maintaining 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 envisaged statements of reasons for their designation, before 1 March 2024, to the following address:





Council of the European Union




General Secretariat




RELEX.1 Global and Horizontal Affairs




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




Email: sanctions@consilium.europa.eu
Any observations received before 15 March 2024 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.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1802/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-142/24, Familienstiftung: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Köln (Germany) lodged on 23 February 2024 - Familienstiftung v Finanzamt Köln-West
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: capital transfer tax, discrimination on the basis of nationality, foundation, free movement of capital, nationality of legal persons, tax law, transfer of property








C_202403058EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3058


13.5.2024






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Köln (Germany) lodged on 23 February 2024 - Familienstiftung v Finanzamt Köln-West


(Case C-142/24, Familienstiftung)

(C/2024/3058)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Finanzgericht Köln

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Familienstiftung

Defendant: Finanzamt Köln-West

Question referred

Must Article 40 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA Agreement) of 2 May 1992 be interpreted as precluding a Member State’s national legislation on the levying of inheritance and gift tax which applies the highest tax class (III) for the taxation of an inter vivos transfer of assets to a foundation established abroad even where the foundation is established essentially in the interests of a family or certain families (family foundation), whereas for a family foundation established on national territory in an equivalent situation, the tax class depends on the relationship between the most distantly related beneficial owner under the foundation’s articles of association and the donor (founder), which results, for family foundations established on national territory, in the application of the more favourable tax classes I or II?


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3058/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11442 – LANTMÄNNEN / HKSCAN SWEDEN) – Candidate case for simplified procedure
Date: 2024-02-23
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: Sweden, agricultural cooperative, association, economic concentration, livestock, meat, meat processing industry, meat product, merger control, value chain








C_202401722EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/1722


23.2.2024






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.11442 – LANTMÄNNEN / HKSCAN SWEDEN)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/1722)


1.   
On 13 February 2024, 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:






—


Lantmännen ek för (‘Lantmännen’, Sweden)










—


HKScan Sweden (‘HKScan Sweden’, Sweden) solely controlled by HKScan Oyj




Lantmännen will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of HKScan Sweden.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.


2.   
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are the following:






—


Lantmännen is an agricultural cooperative association owned by around 18 000 wedish farmers active in agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and food products in Northern Europe.










—


HKScan Sweden is active in the value chain for the production of red meat including services such as slaughtering, cutting, and deboning of cattle, pigs and sheep, as well as sale of fresh and processed meat and associated products, in Sweden.






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 treatment for certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (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.11442 – LANTMÄNNEN / HKSCAN SWEDEN
Observations can be sent to the Commission by email or by post. Please use the contact details below:
Email: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu
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 160, 5.5.2023, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1722/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)