ISSN 1977-091X Official Journal C 62 of the European Union Volume 57 English edition Information and Notices 4 March 2014 Notice No Contents Page II Information 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 Belgium) ( 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 European Central Bank to its main refinancing operations: 0,25 % on 1 March 2014 — Euro exchange rates . 7 2014/C 62/07 New national sides of euro circulation coins . 8 2014/C 62/08 New national side of euro coins intended for circulation . 9 EN 4.3.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 62/1 II (Information) 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 (Notices) 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 ‘Europe 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.