do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11443 – ADNOC / FERTIGLOBE) – Candidate case for simplified procedure
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: chemical fertiliser, distributor, economic concentration, fertiliser industry, gas industry, merger control, oil industry








C_202402181EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/2181


14.3.2024






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.11443 – ADNOC / FERTIGLOBE)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/2181)


1.   
On 7 March 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:






—


ADNOC Fertilizers – Sole Proprietorship, L.L.C. (‘ADNOC Fertilizers’, United Arab Emirates), belonging to the ADNOC Group and ultimately controlled by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company P.J.S.C. (‘ADNOC’, United Arab Emirates),










—


Fertiglobe plc (‘Fertiglobe’, United Arab Emirates).




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


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






—


ADNOC Group: the exploration, production, storage, refining, and distribution of oil and gas,










—


Fertiglobe: the production and distribution of nitrogen fertilisers.






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.11443 – ADNOC / FERTIGLOBE
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/2024/2181/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/899 of 14 March 2024 approving a Union amendment to the specification for a Protected Designation of Origin (Corbières-Boutenac)
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Subjects: France, Occitanie, designation of origin, labelling, product designation, red wine, still wine








L_202400899EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series L













2024/899


21.3.2024







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/899
of 14 March 2024
         
approving a Union amendment to the specification for a Protected Designation of Origin (‘Corbières-Boutenac’)


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(1) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


The Commission has examined the application for the approval of a Union amendment to the product specification for the Protected Designation of Origin ‘Corbières-Boutenac’, forwarded by France in accordance with Article 97(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 in conjunction with Article 105(3), first subparagraph, of that Regulation. The change includes a change of name from ‘Corbières-Boutenac’ to ‘Boutenac’.












(2)


The Commission has published the application for the approval of the Union amendment to the product specification in the Official Journal of the European Union (2), as required by Article 97(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 in conjunction with Article 105(3), first subparagraph, of that Regulation.












(3)


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












(4)


The Union amendment to the product specification should therefore be approved in accordance with Article 99(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The Union amendment to the product specification published in the Official Journal of the European Union regarding the name ‘Corbières-Boutenac’ (PDO) is 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, 14 March 2024.


For the Commission,


On behalf of the President,

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
            

Member of the Commission






(1)  
            OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/1308/oj.

(2)  
            OJ C, C/2023/1384, 4.12.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/1384/oj.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/899/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)
Case C-457/22: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 14 March 2024 – European Commission v Republic of Slovenia (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Article 258 TFEU – Directive (EU) 2018/1972 – European Electronic Communications Code – Failure to transpose and to notify transposition measures – Article 260(3) TFEU – Application for the imposition of a lump sum and a periodic penalty payment – Criteria for determining the amount of the penalty – Discontinuance in part)
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Internet, information technology, national implementing measure, provision of services, regulation of telecommunications, sanction (EU), trans-European network, transmission network, universal service








C_202403044EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3044


13.5.2024






Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 14 March 2024 – European Commission v Republic of Slovenia


(Case C-457/22)
                (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 258 TFEU - Directive (EU) 2018/1972 - European Electronic Communications Code - Failure to transpose and to notify transposition measures - Article 260(3) TFEU - Application for the imposition of a lump sum and a periodic penalty payment - Criteria for determining the amount of the penalty - Discontinuance in part)
(C/2024/3044)
Language of the case: Slovenian

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: M. Kocjan, U. Małecka, L. Malferrari and E. Manhaeve, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Republic of Slovenia (represented by: T. Mihelič Žitko, acting as Agent)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Declares that, by failing to adopt, by the expiry of the period prescribed in the reasoned opinion, as extended by the European Commission, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code and, consequently, by failing to notify those provisions to the Commission, the Republic of Slovenia has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 124(1) of that directive;










2.


Orders the Republic of Slovenia to pay the Commission a lump sum in the amount of EUR 800 000;










3.


Orders the Republic of Slovenia, in addition to bearing its own costs, to pay those incurred by the Commission.






(1)  
            OJ C 326, 29.8.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3044/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
P9_TA(2024)0170 – Nomination of a member of the Court of Auditors – Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi – European Parliament decision of 14 March 2024 on the nomination of Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi as a Member of the Court of Auditors (C9-0008/2024 – 2024/0801(NLE)) (Consultation)
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Committee on Budgetary Control, European Parliament
Subjects: appointment of members, member of the Court of Auditors (EU)








C_202406583EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6583


12.11.2024






P9_TA(2024)0170

Nomination of a member of the Court of Auditors – Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi


European Parliament decision of 14 March 2024 on the nomination of Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi as a Member of the Court of Auditors (C9-0008/2024 – 2024/0801(NLE))


(Consultation)

(C/2024/6583)



The European Parliament,







—


having regard to Article 286(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C9-0008/2024),










—


having regard to Rule 129 of its Rules of Procedure,










—


having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A9-0061/2024),










A.


whereas, by letter of 17 January 2024, the Council consulted Parliament on the nomination of Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi as a Member of the Court of Auditors;










B.


whereas Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control then proceeded to evaluate Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi’s credentials, in particular in view of the requirements laid down in Article 286(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; whereas in carrying out that evaluation, the committee received a curriculum vitae from Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi, as well as the replies to the written questionnaire that he had been sent;










C.


whereas the committee subsequently held a hearing with Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi on 22 February 2024, at which he made an opening statement and then answered questions put by the members of the committee;













1.


Delivers a favourable opinion on the Council’s nomination of Carlo Alberto Manfredi Selvaggi as a Member of the Court of Auditors;












2.


Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and, for information, to the Court of Auditors, the other institutions of the European Union and the audit institutions of the Member States.






ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6583/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-336/22, f6 Cigarettenfabrik: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Düsseldorf – Germany) – f6 Cigarettenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG v Hauptzollamt Bielefeld
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: excise duty, indirect tax, tax collection, tax law, tobacco, tobacco industry








C_202403039EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3039


13.5.2024






Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Düsseldorf – Germany) – f6 Cigarettenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG v Hauptzollamt Bielefeld


(Case C-336/22,
                (1)
f6 Cigarettenfabrik)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Taxation - General arrangements for excise duty - Directive 2008/118/EC - Article 1(2) - Other indirect taxes on excise goods - Conditions for levying such a tax - Specific purpose pursued by the tax - Excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco - Directive 2011/64/EU - Article 14 - Taxation rules - Compliance with those rules by other indirect taxes on excise goods - Heated tobacco - National legislation establishing, for heated tobacco, a tax structure and tax rate differing from those applicable to ‘other smoking tobaccos’)
(C/2024/3039)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Finanzgericht Düsseldorf

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: f6 Cigarettenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Defendant: Hauptzollamt Bielefeld

Operative part of the judgment

Article 1(2) of Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC
must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘other indirect taxes on excise goods for specific purposes’ covers a supplementary tax applicable to heated tobacco, the amount of which is 80 % of the excise applicable to cigarettes, less the amount of excise duty applicable to such heated tobacco.


(1)  
            OJ C 318, 22.8.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3039/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Special report 04/2024: Reaching EU road safety objectives: time to move up a gear
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: European Court of Auditors
Subjects: EU policy, common transport policy, mortality, road safety, road transport, transport accident, transport infrastructure, vehicle








C_202402205EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/2205


14.3.2024






Special report 04/2024:

            ’Reaching EU road safety objectives: time to move up a gear’
         
(C/2024/2205)

The European Court of Auditors has published its special report 04/2024: ’Reaching EU road safety objectives: time to move up a gear’.
The report can be consulted directly or downloaded at the European Court of Auditors’ website: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/publications/sr-2024-04


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/2205/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11430 – MITSUBISHI / KDDI / LAWSON (JV))
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: Asia, Japan, United States, consumer goods, economic concentration, merger control, retail trade, supply, telecommunications








C_202402882EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/2882


23.4.2024






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11430 – MITSUBISHI / KDDI / LAWSON (JV))
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/2882)

On 14 March 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 32024M11430. 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/2024/2882/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-206/24, Logistica I Gestio Caves andorrannes I Vida: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 14 March 2024 – YX, Logistica I Gestio Caves andorrannes I Vida SA v Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Relance, Directeur général des douanes et droits indirects
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: customs drawback, customs duties, customs regulations








C_202403742EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3742


24.6.2024






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 14 March 2024 – YX, Logistica I Gestio Caves andorrannes I Vida SA v Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Relance, Directeur général des douanes et droits indirects


(Case C-206/24, Logistica I Gestio Caves andorrannes I Vida)

(C/2024/3742)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Cour de cassation

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: YX, Logistica I Gestio Caves andorrannes I Vida SA

Defendants: Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Relance, Directeur général des douanes et droits indirects

Questions referred







1.


Must Article 2(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1430/79 of 2 July 1979 on the repayment or remission of import or export duties, (1) which is incorporated into the third subparagraph of Article 236(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code, (2) be interpreted as meaning that the repayment of wrongly collected customs duties by customs authorities on their own motion is limited to a period of three years from the date on which those duties were entered in the accounts by the authorities responsible for their collection or that the customs authorities must establish, during the three years following the chargeable event, that the duties were not legally owed?










2.


Must Article 2(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1430/79 of 2 July 1979 on the repayment or remission of import or export duties, which is incorporated into the third subparagraph of Article 236(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code, be interpreted as meaning that the repayment of wrongly collected customs duties by customs authorities on their own motion is subject to the latter knowing the identity of the operators concerned and the amounts to be repaid to each of them without it being necessary to carry out extensive or disproportionate research?






(1)  
            OJ 1979 L 175, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ 1992 L 302, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3742/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-439/22: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 14 March 2024 – European Commission v Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Article 258 TFEU – Directive (EU) 2018/1972 – European Electronic Communications Code – Failure to transpose and notify the transposition measures – Article 260(3) TFEU – Application for the imposition of a lump sum and a periodic penalty payment – Criteria for determining the amount of the penalty)
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Internet, information technology, national implementing measure, provision of services, regulation of telecommunications, sanction (EU), trans-European network, transmission network, universal service








C_202403040EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3040


13.5.2024






Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 14 March 2024 – European Commission v Ireland


(Case C-439/22)
                (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 258 TFEU - Directive (EU) 2018/1972 - European Electronic Communications Code - Failure to transpose and notify the transposition measures - Article 260(3) TFEU - Application for the imposition of a lump sum and a periodic penalty payment - Criteria for determining the amount of the penalty)
(C/2024/3040)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: U. Małecka, L. Malferrari, E. Manhaeve and J. Samnadda, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Ireland (represented by: M. Browne, A. Joyce, M. Lane and D. O’Reilly, acting as Agents, and by S. Brittain, Barrister-at-Law)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Declares that, by failing to adopt, by the expiry of the period prescribed in the reasoned opinion, as extended by the European Commission, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code and, consequently, by failing to notify those provisions to the Commission, Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 124(1) of that directive;










2.


Orders Ireland to pay to the Commission a lump sum in the amount of EUR 4 500 000;










3.


Orders Ireland to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission.






(1)  
            OJ C 326, 29.8.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3040/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11392 – GLENCORE / TECK (COAL ASSETS)) – Candidate case for simplified procedure
Date: 2024-03-14
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: coal industry, economic concentration, management of resources, merger control, natural resources








C_202402194EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
Series C













C/2024/2194


14.3.2024






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.11392 – GLENCORE / TECK (COAL ASSETS))
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/2194)


1.   
On 7 March 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:






—


Glencore plc (‘Glencore’, Jersey),










—


The coal assets, located in Canada, of Teck Resources Limited (‘Teck’, Canada) (‘Coal Assets’, Canada).




Glencore will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of Teck’s Coal Assets.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.


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






—


Glencore is a natural resource company active in the production of more than sixty commodities,










—


The Coal Assets, located in British Columbia, Canada, produce and supply metallurgical coal and, to a lower extent, thermal coal. The Coal Assets are currently controlled by Teck, a company that carries out mining and related activities, including the research, exploration and development, processing, smelting, refining, and sale of natural resources.






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.11392 – GLENCORE / TECK (COAL ASSETS)
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/2024/2194/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)