12.7.2014   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/1

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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,

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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32014M7115. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/1

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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,

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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32014M7140. EUR-Lex is the online access to the European law.

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/2

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12.7.2014   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/4

12.7.2014   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/5

1.

On 17 January 2014, the Commission adopted a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a European network of Employment Services, workers' access to mobility services and the further integration of labour markets (‘the Proposal’) (1). On the same day, the Commission sent the Proposal to the EDPS for consultation.

2.

We welcome the fact that we were consulted on this Proposal prior to its adoption and that we were given the possibility to provide informal comments to the Commission. The Commission took into account several of these comments. As a result, the data protection safeguards in the proposed Regulation have been strengthened. We also welcome the reference in the preamble to the consultation of the EDPS.

3.

The objective of the Proposal is to ‘enhance access of workers to intra-EU labour mobility support services, thus supporting fair mobility and increasing access to employment opportunities throughout the Union’ (2).

4.

The Proposal aims at providing a revised and updated legal framework for the functioning of the EURES job mobility portal (3), which has already been in place for some time. The proposed rules will also fundamentally change the way how the portal currently works.

5.

As it stands now, the portal offers a tool to help jobseekers find employers and employers find jobseekers across the EU directly through the portal, much like other, privately operated, job search sites. Jobseekers can register and post their résumés on the portal. Potential employers, in turn, can access, browse and search the site for matching profiles when they are looking to fill vacancies. The EURES job portal is managed by the Commission and hosted on Commission servers.

6.

The changes proposed include measures to help increase the number of job vacancies as well as the pool of candidates available in EURES. Further, they also increase the capabilities of the portal to automatically match job vacancies with job applications.

7.

To this end the current system of direct registration of CVs and job vacancies will be replaced/complemented by a system where public employment services and other ‘authorised’ employment services (so-called ‘EURES-partners’) will make available via EURES a limited and select set of ‘matchable’ and codified data obtained from the CV and job vacancy databases they hold.

8.

To illustrate, these would include data categories such as the occupation or skill concerned, level of academic achievement, language skills, driving licence, the number of years of work experience, the nature of the contract (permanent or temporary) and the location of employment. Making these data available to EURES, on the applicant side (data derived from CV data), will be subject to explicit consent of the individuals concerned.

9.

The list of organisations systematically feeding data into the system will include not only ‘public employment services of the Member States’, but also other ‘authorised’ EURES partners. In other words: participation in the EURES network will be open to all employment services, whether public or private, which fulfil a specified minimum set of criteria (set forth in Annex 1 of the Proposal).

10.

Thanks to its matching tool, it is expected that the Regulation will enable the EURES portal to ‘carry out a good automated matching between job vacancies and CVs across Member States, translating in all EU languages and understanding skills, competencies, occupations and qualifications acquired at national and sectoral level’ (4).

11.

The process leading to a match can be initiated by any of the EURES partners. If a match is positive, the organisation requesting the match will receive a list of matching applicant profiles (5). However, as a rule, the list will not contain the names, the actual CVs or any other personal data of the applicants concerned. These can be obtained, on request, from the EURES partner that made the data available to the EURES portal (6).

38.

We welcome the careful consideration by the Commission of the right to the protection of personal data when drafting the Proposal. In particular, the Proposal requires explicit consent from the workers concerned and takes due account of the rights of data subjects, including their right to access and correct their data. In addition, the Proposal does not specifically require or encourage web-crawling and indeed raises relevant data protection concerns in this regard in the Explanatory Memorandum.

39.

In the present Opinion we recommend certain further improvements:

12.7.2014   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/8

12.7.2014   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/9

1.

On 1 July 2014, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking SARIA SE & Co. KG (‘SARIA’, Germany), through its wholly owned subsidiary SARIA International GmbH (‘SARIA International, Germany’) — both belonging to the Rethmann SE & Co. KG (‘Rethmann Group’, Germany) — acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the undertakings Teeuwissen Holding B.V. (‘Teeuwissen’, The Netherlands) and Jagero Holding II, S. L. (‘Jagero’, Spain), by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for SARIA: collection and processing of animal by-products into protein meals and fats as well as collection and processing of food leftovers to be used as input material for biogas production,

—   for Teeuwissen: production of casings and purchasing and processing of abattoir by-products to be used by different industries,

—   for Jagero: holding company owning companies active in the production of casings and the processing of abattoir by-products to be used by different industries.

3.

On preliminary examination, the European 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 procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under the Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in the Notice.

4.

The European Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the European Commission.

Observations must reach the European Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. Observations can be sent to the European Commission by fax (+32 22964301), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7329 — SARIA/Teeuwissen/Jagero II to the following address:

12.7.2014   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/10

1.

On 3 July 2014, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking Atos S.E. (‘Atos’, France), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of the undertaking Bull S.A. (‘Bull’, France) by way of public bid announced on 26 May 2014.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for Atos: IT services;

—   for Bull: IT services and hardware.

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 procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under the Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (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. Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (+32 22964301), by e-mail to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7308 — Atos/Bull, to the following address:

12.7.2014   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/11

1.

On 3 July 2014, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertakings Intermediate Capital Group plc (‘ICG’, United Kingdom) and KIRKBI A/S KG (‘KIRKBI’, Denmark), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of the undertaking Minimax Viking GmbH (‘MVG’, Germany), by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for ICG: active in the structuring and provision of mezzanine finance, leveraged credit and minority equity,

—   for KIRKBI: holding and investment company of the Kirk Kristiansen family,

—   for MVG: active in the manufacture and supply of fire suppression and related detection and control systems as well as the integration of such systems for the industrial, energy and commercial sectors. Also active in the manufacture and supply of portable fire extinguishers and supplies and installs equipment for fire trucks.

3.

On preliminary examination, the European 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 procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under the Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in the Notice.

4.

The European Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the European Commission.

Observations must reach the European Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. Observations can be sent to the European Commission by fax (+32 22964301), by e-mail to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7325 — ICG/KIRKBI/Minimax Viking Group to the following address:

12.7.2014   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/12

12.7.2014   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/12