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Volume 57 English edition Information and Notices 4 March 2014

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INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

European Commission

2014/C 62/01 Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7138 — ThyssenKrupp/Acciai Speciali Terni/Outokumpu VDM) ( 1) ...... 1

2014/C 62/02 Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7052 — Lloyds Development Capital/ PostNL/TNT Post UK) ( 1) ...... 2

2014/C 62/03 Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7157 — BPCE/GIMV/Veolia Transport ) ( 1) ...... 2

2014/C 62/04 Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7168 — Lukoil/ISAB/ISAB Energy/ISAB Energy Services) ( 1) ...... 3

Price: 1 EN EUR 3 ( ) Text with EEA relevance (Continued overleaf) Notice No Contents (continued) Page

IV Notices

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

Council

2014/C 62/05 Council conclusions — Efficient and innovative education and training to invest in skills — Supporting the 2014 European Semester ...... 4

European Commission

2014/C 62/06 Interest rate applied by the to its main refinancing operations: 0,25 % on 1 March 2014 — exchange rates ...... 7

2014/C 62/07 New national sides of euro circulation ...... 8

2014/C 62/08 New national side of intended for circulation ...... 9

EN 4.3.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 62/1

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INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7138 — ThyssenKrupp/Acciai Speciali Terni/Outokumpu VDM) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/C 62/01)

On 12 February 2014, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the common 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/en/index.htm) under document number 32014M7138. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.

( 1 ) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1. C 62/2 EN Official Journal of the European Union 4.3.2014

Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7052 — Lloyds Development Capital/PostNL/TNT Post UK) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/C 62/02)

On 30 January 2014, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the common 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/en/index.htm) under document number 32014M7052. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law. ______( 1 ) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.

Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7157 — BPCE/GIMV/Veolia Transport Belgium) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/C 62/03)

On 21 February 2014, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the common 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/en/index.htm) under document number 32014M7157. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.

( 1 ) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1. 4.3.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 62/3

Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.7168 — Lukoil/ISAB/ISAB Energy/ISAB Energy Services) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/C 62/04)

On 27 February 2014, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the common 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/en/index.htm) under document number 32014M7168. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.

( 1 ) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1. C 62/4 EN Official Journal of the European Union 4.3.2014

IV

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NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

COUNCIL

Council conclusions — Efficient and innovative education and training to invest in skills ( 1) — Supporting the 2014 European Semester (2014/C 62/05)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, — the Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on estab­ lishing a Youth Guarantee ( 7 ), IN THE CONTEXT OF:

— Articles 165 and 166 of the Treaty on the Functioning of — the Council declaration on a ‘European Alliance for Appren­ 8 the European Union, ticeships’ adopted on 15 October 2013 ( ),

— the ‘ 2020’ strategy, and — Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing — the Council conclusions of 12 May 2009 establishing a ‘Erasmus+’: the Union programme for education, training strategic framework for European cooperation in education youth and sport ( 9), and training (‘ET 2020’) ( 2),

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT: AND IN RESPONSE TO: 10 — the Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the — the 2014 Annual Growth Survey ( ), and Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning ( 3), — the Commission communication on ‘Opening Up Education: Innovative teaching and learning for all through new tech­ — the Council conclusions of 26 November 2012 on 11 nologies and Open Educational Resources’ ( ), education and training in Europe 2020 — the contribution of education and training to economic recovery, growth and 4 jobs ( ), CONSIDERS THAT:

— the Council Recommendation on the validation of non- 1. education and training have a strategic role to play in formal and informal learning of 20 December 2012 ( 5 ), supporting the economic recovery in Europe. Although good progress has been made towards the education headline target set under the ‘Europe 2020’ strategy ( 12 ), — the Council conclusions of 15 February 2013 on investing much still remains to be done to reverse the impact of the in education and training — a response to ‘Rethinking crisis and to tackle underlying structural problems; Education: Investing in skills for better social-economic outcomes’ and the ‘2013 Annual Growth Survey’ ( 6 ), 2. recent data suggest that these structural problems are partly 1 ( ) For the purposes of these conclusions, the term ‘skills’ is used linked to the lack of relevant skills and therefore present generically and in accordance with the definition in Annex I to challenges to our education and training systems; the 2006 Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (OJ C 111, 6.5.2008, p. 4). ( 7 ) OJ C 120, 26.4.2013, p. 1. ( 2 ) OJ C 119, 28.5.2009, p. 2. ( 8 ) 14986/13. ( 3 ) OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 10. ( 9 ) OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 50. ( 4 ) OJ C 393, 19.12.2012, p. 5. ( 10) 15803/13 + ADD 1. ( 5 ) OJ C 398, 22.12.2012, p. 1. ( 11) 14116/13 + ADD 1. ( 6 ) OJ C 64, 5.3.2013, p. 5. ( 12) According to the Education and Training Monitor 2013. 4.3.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 62/5

3. one person in five among the EU working-age population 4. continuing — in cooperation with relevant stakeholders — has low literacy and numeracy skills, a factor which seriously to modernise and improve educational methods on the basis limits their employability, and despite some progress in basic of the latest research, and making full use of the oppor­ skills the number of school pupils performing poorly in tunities offered by digital learning, including — in mathematics is still high ( 1 ); accordance with national circumstances — by:

4. although forecasts suggest that almost all jobs in the future (a) supporting educational institutions in improving their will require at least basic digital skills, many school pupils capacity — and, where appropriate, investment in ICT still lack access to the digital technology and content needed infrastructure — so as to exploit the potential of new to acquire them. A large number of adults lack digital skills technologies and digital content, including massive open altogether, online courses;

STRESSES THAT: (b) promoting more diversified learning experiences which 1. there is an urgent need to address the key challenges of blend face-to-face and digital learning methods; youth unemployment and inadequate skills levels. In addition to the essential contribution they make to fostering social cohesion and active citizenship, education (c) encouraging initial teacher education and continuing and training contribute significantly to generating smart, professional development to explore the use of digitally inclusive and sustainable growth, to improving competi­ supported teaching methods, tiveness and employability, as well to enhancing productivity and innovation; INVITES THE MEMBER STATES, WITH DUE REGARD FOR THE 2. whilst acknowledging the efforts already being made in order PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH to meet these key challenges, the EU and Member States NATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, TO: should intensify efforts to improve education and training and continue to invest in efficient, high-quality education 1. continue efforts to improve the acquisition of key and training; competences and to decrease the share of low-achievers at school;

3. the future review of the ‘Europe 2020’ strategy and the forthcoming stocktaking exercise of the ‘ET 2020’ 2. promote the acquisition of basic skills, as well as the framework for European cooperation in education and adoption of re-skilling and up-skilling measures through training should enable the strategic role which education strengthened lifelong learning, with a focus on the low- and training play in to be skilled; strengthened,

WITH A VIEW TO INCREASING THE VISIBILITY OF EDUCATION 3. adopt effective and inclusive education and training policies AND TRAINING IN THE 2014 EUROPEAN SEMESTER, AGREES TO which take due account of the needs of learners with FOCUS ON: disadvantaged backgrounds;

1. facilitating as far as possible long-term investment in the modernisation of education and training and the devel­ 4. encourage an evidence-based debate among a broad range opment of skills at both national and European level, of stakeholders on providing and protecting sustainable and while placing greater emphasis on the efficiency and efficient means of funding for education and training; quality of educational investment;

2. equipping people in all age groups with better and more 5. take appropriate action in response to the key education relevant skills, notably by strengthening lifelong learning and training-related messages in the Council declaration on and promoting equal opportunities for access to quality the European Alliance for Apprenticeships and in the education and training, including for learners with Council Recommendation on establishing a Youth Guar­ disadvantaged backgrounds; antee;

3. facilitating the transition from education and training to 6. explore how transparency and recognition instruments in work, notably by promoting work-based learning schemes formal education could also cater for new forms of and, where appropriate, increasing the availability of good learning, including the validation of skills acquired quality traineeships or apprenticeships; through quality web-based learning;

( 1 ) Data according to the OECD's 2013 PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences) 7. support education and training institutions in exploiting the and its 2012 PISA Survey of ability in reading, maths and science potential of new technologies and digital content as a among 15-year-olds (Programme for International Student Assess­ ment). complement to traditional educational approaches and N.B.: The right of participation of all Members States in the work of with a view to meeting the needs of different learners, this organisation should be ensured. including those with disadvantaged backgrounds; C 62/6 EN Official Journal of the European Union 4.3.2014

8. support teachers and school leaders in acquiring a high 5. increase the added value and optimise the effectiveness of the level of digital skills and adopting innovative teaching prac­ ‘ET 2020’ strategic framework and its underlying governance tices, for example through flexible training, incentive and working arrangements, notably by: schemes, and updated curricula for teacher education; (a) further developing cooperation between education and 9. make full use of the new generation of financial instru­ employment policy specialists; ments, in particular the ‘Erasmus+’ programme and the European Structural and Investment Funds in order to address the above challenges in education and training; (b) ensuring that the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), including the ‘ET 2020’ working groups ( 1 ), effectively serve to assist in following up on identified challenges; 10. seek to facilitate investment in education and training as growth-friendly sectors, whilst taking into account the education and training aspects of the Europe 2020 (c) continuing voluntary high-level peer reviews in the country-specific recommendations, context of existing OMC structures, focusing on the education and training aspects of country-specific recom­ INVITES MEMBER STATES AND THE COMMISSION TO: mendations;

1. strengthen the contribution of education and training to the (d) using the mid-term stocktaking exercise to help prepare EU agenda for growth and jobs by making more efficient the next draft joint report, with a more forward-looking and effective use of investments in order to raise skills levels, focus which identifies key priority areas and concrete improve learning outcomes and address skills shortages; issues for future work;

2. encourage partnerships at national and European level between creators of educational content with a view to (e) optimising, reducing and simplifying education and increasing the supply of quality Open Educational training reporting structures so as to avoid duplication, Resources and other digital educational materials in different languages, whilst paying due regard to copyright INVITES THE COMMISSION TO: and licensing issues; 1. compile evidence and prepare an analysis on the economic 3. further exploit the eTwinning platform and make use of the and social impact and benefits of education with a view to new ‘Open Education Europa’ portal as a reference point for informing a future debate in the Council; existing Open Educational Resources produced in the EU; 2. promote an open public debate in the context of the consul­ 4. follow up on the November 2013 Council policy debate by tation on the European Area of Skills and Qualifications on organising a summit on the challenges posed by new tech­ the impact of new technologies and digital content in nologies and Open Educational Resources, particularly as current practices and EU instruments and policies, regards quality assurance and the assessment and certifi­ including issues such as quality assurance, assessment and cation of skills acquired through new modes of learning; certification.

( 1 ) Explanatory note: these working groups — first established by the Commission under the ‘Education and Training 2010’ work programme in order to implement the Open Method of Coor­ dination in education and training — offer a forum for the exchange of best practices in these fields. They bring together — on a voluntary basis — experts from the Member States and, in their current format, cover six key areas: schools, higher education, VET, adult learning, transversal skills and digital learning. 4.3.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 62/7

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Interest rate applied by the European Central Bank to its main refinancing operations ( 1) : 0,25 % on 1 March 2014

Euro exchange rates ( 2) 3 March 2014

(2014/C 62/06)

1 euro =

Currency Exchange rate Currency Exchange rate

USD US dollar 1,3768 CAD Canadian dollar 1,5278 JPY Japanese yen 139,51 HKD Hong Kong dollar 10,6823 DKK 7,4626 NZD New Zealand dollar 1,6446 GBP 0,82305 SGD Singapore dollar 1,7461 SEK 8,8652 KRW South Korean won 1 473,34 CHF Swiss franc 1,2129 ZAR 14,8640 ISK króna CNY Chinese yuan renminbi 8,4589 NOK Norwegian krone 8,3175 HRK 7,6515 BGN 1,9558 IDR Indonesian rupiah 15 969,50 CZK 27,354 MYR Malaysian ringgit 4,5222 HUF 312,65 PHP Philippine peso 61,604 LTL 3,4528 RUB Russian rouble 50,0835 PLN Polish zloty 4,1928 THB Thai baht 44,818 RON 4,5167 BRL Brazilian real 3,2125 TRY Turkish lira 3,0576 MXN Mexican peso 18,2997 AUD Australian dollar 1,5432 INR Indian rupee 85,3905

( 1 ) Rate applied to the most recent operation carried out before the indicated day. In the case of a variable rate tender, the interest rate is the marginal rate. ( 2 ) Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB. C 62/8 EN Official Journal of the European Union 4.3.2014

New national sides of euro circulation coins (2014/C 62/07)

Euro circulation coins have legal tender status throughout the euro area. The Commission publishes all new euro designs ( 1 ) with a view to informing all parties required to handle coins in the course of their work as well as the public at large.

1 EURO CENT 2 EURO CENT 5 EURO CENT 10 EURO CENT

20 EURO CENT 50 EURO CENT 1 EURO 2 EURO

Issuing country: The Principality of

Date of issue: January 2014

Description of the designs: The 1-, 2- and 5-euro cent coins show elements of nature, wildlife and flora. At the bottom, obliquely ofriented from left to right, the country of issuance ‘ANDORRA’ and the year of issuance ‘2014’.

The 10-, 20- and 50-euro cent coins depict elements of Roman art. At the right, vertically positioned, the country of issuance ‘ANDORRA’ and the year of issuance ‘2014’.

The 1-euro coin features Casa de la Vall — historical house in Andorra la Vella, part of the Cultural Heritage of Andorra. At the bottom, the country of issuance ‘ANDORRA’ and the year of issuance ‘2014’.

The 2-euro coins features the coat of arms of Andorra and the motto virtus unita fortior. At the right, vertically positioned, the country of issuance ‘ANDORRA’ and the year of issuance ‘2014’.

The coin's outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

The edge-lettering of the 2-euro coin is: 2 **, repeated six times, alternately from the bottom up and top down.

( 1 ) See OJ C 373, 28.12.2001, p. 1, OJ C 254, 20.10.2006, p. 6 and OJ C 248, 23.10.2007, p. 8 for a reference to the other euro coins. 4.3.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 62/9

New national side of euro coins intended for circulation (2014/C 62/08)

National side of the new commemorative 2-euro coin intended for circulation and issued by Euro coins intended for circulation have legal tender status throughout the euro area. For the purpose of informing the public and all parties who handle the coins, the Commission publishes a description of the designs of all new coins ( 1). In accordance with the Council conclusions of 10 February 2009 ( 2), euro-area Member States and countries that have concluded a monetary agreement with the European Union providing for the issuing of euro coins are allowed to issue commemorative euro coins intended for circulation, provided that certain conditions are met, particularly that only the 2-euro denomination is used. These coins have the same technical characteristics as other 2-euro coins, but their national face features a commemorative design that is highly symbolic in national or European terms.

Issuing country: Slovenia

Subject of commemoration: The 600th anniversary of the crowning of Barbara Celjska

Description of the design:

The central image of the coin shows, with lined pattern, the portrait of the Queen Barbara of Celje with her sceptre. On the image are placed three typical six-pointed stars of Celje counts. On the left side of the portrait is the inscription ‘SLOVENIJA’ and on the right side the inscription ‘BARBARA CELJSKA’ and the years ‘1414-2014’.

The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Number of coins to be issued: 1 million

Date of issue: October 2014

( 1 ) See OJ C 373, 28.12.2001, p. 1 for the national faces of all the coins issued in 2002. ( 2 ) See the conclusions of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 10 February 2009 and the Commission Recommendation of 19 December 2008 on common guidelines for the national sides and the issuance of euro coins intended for circulation (OJ L 9, 14.1.2009, p. 52).

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