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^•^ /*/*• • "1 "T" "I ISSN 0378-6986 Official Journal C26? Volume 33 of the European Communities 23 °ctober 199° English edkion Information and Notices Notice No Contents Page I Information Commission 90/C 267/01 Ecu 1 90/C 267/02 Notice pursuant to Article 19 (3) of Regulation No 17 concerning Case IV/32.659 — IATA passenger agency programme 2 Court of Justice 90/C 267/03 Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 October 1990 in Case C-61/89 (reference for a preliminary ruling made by the Cour d'Appel, Aix-en-Provence): criminal proceedings against Marc Gaston Bouchoucha (Freedom of establishment: Practice of paramedical professions (osteopathy)) 9 90/C 267/04 Case C-264/90: Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Finanzgericht Hamburg by order of that court of 12 July 1980 in the Case of Heinrich Wehrs v. Haupt- zollamt Liineburg 9 90/C 267/05 Case C-290/90: Action brought on 20 September 1990 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Federal Republic of Germany 9 90/C 267/06 Case C-291/90: Action brought on 21 September 1990 by the Portuguese Republic against the Council of the European Communities 10 II Preparatory Acts Commission 90/C 267/07 Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on the introduction and the maintenance of agricultural production methods compatible with the requirements of the protection of the environment and the maintenance of the countryside 11 1 (Continued overleaf) Notice No Contents (continued) Page 90/C 267/08 Modification of the draft Financial Regulation applicable to development finance cooperation under the Fourth Lome Convention 14 90/C 267/09 Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 89/396/EEC on indications or marks identifying the lot to which a foodstuff belongs 15 III Notices Commission 90/C 267/10 Outcome of the invitations to tender (Community food aid) 16 23. 10. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 267/1 I (Information) COMMISSION Ecu O 22 October 1990 (90/C 267/01) Currency amount for one ecu: Belgian and Portuguese escudo 181,794 Luxembourg franc 42,4015 United States dollar 1,36482 German mark 2,05951 Swiss franc 1,73850 Dutch guilder 2,32142 Swedish krona 7,64366 Pound sterling 0,698831 Norwegian krone 7,99920 Danish krone 7,85794 Canadian dollar 1,60271 French franc 6,89642 Austrian schilling 14,4903 Italian lira 1542,93 Finnish markka 4,88195 Irish pound 0,768176 Japanese yen 172,103 Greek drachma 207,534 Australian dollar 1,74797 Spanish peseta 129,385 New Zealand dollar 2,24661 The Commission has installed a telex with an automatic answering device which gives the conversion rates in a number of currencies. This service is available even.* day from 3.30 p.m. until 1 p.m. the following day. Users of the service should do as follows: — call telex number Brussels 23789; — give their own telex code; — type the code 'cccc' which puts the automatic system into operation resulting in the transmission of the conversion rates of the ecu; — the transmission should not be interrupted until the end of the message, which is marked by the code 'ffff'. Note: The Commission also has an automatic telex answering service (No 21791) providing daily data on calculation of monetary compensatory amounts for the purposes of the common agricultural policy. (') Council Regulation (EEC) No 3180/78 of 18 December 1978 (OJ No L 379, 30. 12. 1978, p. 1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1971/89 (OJ No L 189, 4. 7. 1989, p. 1). Council Decision 80/1184/EEC of 18 December 1980 (Convention of Lome) (OJ No L 349, 23. 12. 1980, p. 34). Commission Decision No 3334/80/ECSC of 19 December 1980 (OJ No L 349, 23. 12. 1980, p. 27). Financial Regulation of 16 December 1980 concerning the general budget of the European Communities (OJ No L 345, 20. 12. 1980, p. 23). Council Regulation (EEC) No 3308/80 of 16 December 1980 (OJ No L 345, 20. 12. 1980, p. 1). Decision of the Council of Governors of the European Investment Bank of 13 May 1981 (OJ No L 311, 30. 10. 1981, p. 1). No C 267/2 Official Journal of the European Communities 23. 10. 90 Notice pursuant to Article 19 (3) of Regulation No 17 (*) concerning Case IV/32.659 — IATA passenger agency programme (90/C 267/02) I — resolution 814d: travel agency commissioner, NOTIFICATIONS — resolution 814e: conduct of review by travel agency commissioner. 1. On 21 March 1988 the Director-General on behalf of IATA and on behalf of its member airlines partici pating in the IATA Passenger Agency Conference 4. By letter of 25 January 1990, the Director-General, (Paconf) (2) applied for negative clearance of the IATA on behalf of IATA and its members, made formal under passenger agency programme as applicable within the takings concerning particular aspects of resolution 814. European Community, and, to the extent that such negative clearance could not be granted, for an exemption under Article 85 (3) of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community. II THE PARTIES: IATA AND ITS MEMBERSHIP 2. On 15 June 1989, the Commission sent IATA a statement of objections based on Article 15 (6) of Regu lation No 17 concerning the following IATA resolutions: 5. IATA is an association of enterprises composed of 189 member air carriers. It was founded at the Interna tional Air Transport Operators Conference at Havana, — resolution 800: passenger sales agency administration Cuba, in April 1945. rules, as amended, 6. Members of IATA are classified as active or — resolution 800a: application form for approval as an associate. Any air transport enterprise operating an air IATA passenger sales agent, service between the territories of two or more States is eligible for membership as an active member. — resolution 800b: passenger sales agency agreement, 7. The parties to the agreements (resolutions) under — resolution 808: passenger sales agency rules — consideration are the 154 active member airlines partici Europe, as amended, pating in the IATA Passenger Agency Conference (Paconf). 35 IATA associate member airlines (3) do not — resolution 808e: conduct of review by travel agency offer international scheduled services nor participate in commissioner, the Paconf. The arrangements, however, affect them in as much as they comply with them. — resolution 802: IATA agency distribution system — Europe, as amended. Ill The other IATA resolutions that were notified to the THE MARKET Commission are being treated separately. 8. The global operating revenues for scheduled inter 3. Following this statement of objections, IATA national passenger services of IATA member airlines in informed the Commission that a new resolution to be 1986, according to IATA financial statistical reporting applied within the European Community would be forms, were US $ 37 250 million. The individual prepared. This new resolution would replace resolutions members' total turnovers ranged in 1986 from US $ 1,4 800, 802 and 808. On 6 November 1989, the following to US $ 6 688 million. Revenues from international resolutions were accordingly notified to the Commission: scheduled passenger traffic of IATA airlines based in the Community and members of the Association of — resolution 814: IATA sales agency distribution rules, European Airlines (AEA) amounted in the same year, according to the AEA Yearbook 1986, to US $ 14 995 million. (») OJ No 13, 21. 2. 1962, p. 204 (English Special Edition 1959—62 p. 87). (2) IATA active members, listed in the Annex. (3) See Annex. 23. 10. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 267/3 9. All IATA member airlines use the agency effective manner the standards required to help the programme for their sales. The programme embraces customer to choose among the airline products over 26 000 sales outlets (agencies) in 165 countries, of offered. which outlets 10 151 (1987 figures) are located in Community countries. According to IATA the estimated 1987 sales volume of scheduled international air trans 13. The management of the programme is assigned to portation by IATA agents in Community countries the Agency Administration Division, within the IATA amounted to approximately US $ 14 914 million. Secretariat. The IATA resolutions under examination (') 10. The sale takes the form of a contract for carriage (tickets issued to the passenger by the airline or, within the terms of the arrangements, by the airline's appointed Qualifications for accreditation and retention as an IATA agent on the airline's behalf. The airlines have their own agent sales shops in their biggest markets, but effect, according to IATA's estimates, 70 % of their sales in Europe 14. Any person in possession of the appropriate through travel agencies. official licences, where required, may become an accredited agent by making an application in the form prescribed to the IATA agency services manager in the country where such person carries on business, and by IV meeting the qualifications set out below. Such qualifi cations must continue to be met in order to ensure THE IATA PASSENGER AGENCY PROGRAMME retention as an accredited agent. For this purpose the term 'applicant' when used below shall be understood to include an already accredited agent. In this context General 'person' means an individual, partnership, firm, associ ation, company or corporation whose activities, upon accreditation, include those of a travel agent serving the general public. 11. The passenger agency programme, which has been established by the Paconf and is the IATA's system for appointing intermediaries, is one of its basic institutions. 15. The applicant shall submit independently It is argued that the main objective of the programme is produced financial statements prepared in accordance to ensure that travel agency outlets selling on behalf of with local accounting practices as specified and published IATA members are competent and professional, provide by the IATA body entrusted with accreditation; such dependable and impartial service to the public and to statements shall be evaluated and found satisfactory appointing airlines, and handle the airlines' monies and pursuant to the methodology and standards established documents with integrity.