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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 32015M7658. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.

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Official Journal of the European Union

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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 32015M7660. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.

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Official Journal of the European Union

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(1)

By its Decisions of 16 July 2012 (2) and 27 November 2012 (3), the Council appointed the members of the Governing Board of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the period from 18 September 2012 to 17 September 2015.

(2)

The members of the Governing Board of that Centre should be appointed for a period of three years,

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the EU legislator should, in future policy making measures in the field of mHealth, foster accountability and allocation of responsibility of those involved in the design, supply and functioning of apps (including designers and device manufacturers),

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app designers and publishers should design devices and apps to increase transparency and the level of information provided to individuals in relation to processing of their data and avoid collecting more data than is needed to perform the expected function. They should do so by embedding privacy and data protection settings in the design and by making them applicable by default, in case individuals are not invited to set their data protection options manually, for instance when installing apps on their smart devices,

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industry should use Big data in mHealth for purposes that are beneficial to the individuals and avoid using them for practices that could cause them harm, such as discriminatory profiling, and

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the legislator should enhance data security and encourage the application of privacy by design and by default through privacy engineering and the development of building blocks and tools.

1.

At the beginning of the years 2000 the media, IT and electronic communication industries began to converge, creating both a new business environment and new regulatory issues. Similarly, today, the healthcare industry has found new opportunities for development and growth in the convergence with new technologies (smart devices and related mobile apps). This combination aims ultimately at administering healthcare to users through smart devices, and is considered as an ‘emerging and rapidly developing field which has the potential to play a part in the transformation of healthcare and increase its quality and efficiency’ (1).

2.

The convergence between technology and healthcare is expected to allow (i) better healthcare at a lower cost, (ii) patient empowerment (i.e. improved control over own healthcare) (2), and (iii) easier and more immediate access to medical care and information online (e.g. by enabling doctors to remotely monitor patients and more often interact with them via e-mails).

3.

The achievement of such objectives will be possible through the design and distribution of mobile devices (e.g. wearable computing devices) and apps running on users' smart devices. They can capture increasing quantities of personal data (storage and computational power grow exponentially, as their price decreases) from a high number of ‘data sensors’, which could be further processed in the providers' datacentres with unprecedented computing capacity. The combination of ubiquitous use and connectivity, profit-making services often offered free to users (especially free mobile apps), together with Big Data and data mining plays a crucial role in mHealth, building a digital image of each of us (so-called quantified self) (3).

4.

In view of the impact the development of mobile Health (‘mHealth’) may have on individuals' rights to privacy and personal data protection, we have decided on our own initiative to issue this Opinion.

5.

It aims at drawing attention to the most relevant aspects of data protection for mHealth, which might currently be overlooked or underestimated, in order to enhance compliance with existing data protection rules and open the way to a consistent application of those rules. In doing so, it draws upon the opinion adopted by the Article 29 Working Party on mobile apps installed on smart devices (4).

6.

It also considers the implications of this new, fast-changing scenario in view of the changes contemplated in the proposed General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’).

7.

This Opinion consists of two sections. Section II highlights the most relevant data protection implications of mHealth. Section III explores ways forward for the integration of data protection requirements in the design of mHealth apps. It does so by emphasising further legislative action which appears at the same time desirable and necessary to provide an effective response to the issues that mHealth is raising, or is likely to raise in the future, in terms of dignity, privacy, data protection and the right to personal identity.

69.

mHealth offers a wealth of new opportunities, in terms of better and more responsive healthcare for individuals, better disease prevention and lower healthcare costs for welfare systems and greater opportunities for businesses. However, in order to achieve a situation where all the three categories above may fully benefit from these developments, everyone needs to accept the responsibilities that come with opportunities.

70.

In particular, we draw the attention on the responsibility to individuals and to the need to preserve their dignity and their rights to privacy and self-determination. In a context of rapid economic change and dynamic interaction among various private and public operators, these fundamental principles should not be overlooked and private profit should not translate into a cost for society.

71.

In this respect, data protection principles and rules provide guidance in a sector which is still largely unregulated. If duly complied with, they will increase legal certainty and trust in mHealth, thus contributing to its full development.

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Official Journal of the European Union

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Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism

International Relations and Co-operation

Under-Secretariat for Industry, Energy and Tourism

Paseo de la Castellana, 160

28046 Madrid

ESPAÑA

Tel. +34 913494180

Internet: www.minetur.gob.es

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Official Journal of the European Union

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Date of adoption of the decision

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25 March 2015

Case No

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75358

Decision No

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67/15/COL

EFTA State

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Iceland

Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)

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Sale and transmission of electricity to United Silicon hf.

Legal basis

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Type of measure

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No State aid

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Official Journal of the European Union

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Date of adoption of the decision

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21 April 2015

Case No

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76399

Decision No

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150/15/COL

EFTA State

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Norway

Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)

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State aid measures in favour of electric vehicles

Legal basis

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Article 61(1) of the EEA Agreement

or

Article 61(3)(c) of the EEA Agreement

Type of measure

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No State aid: allowance granted to electric vehicles to drive in bus lanes.

Compatible State aid: (i) the zero VAT rating for the supply and import of electric vehicles, (ii) the zero VAT rating for the leasing of electric vehicles, (iii) the zero VAT rating for the supply and import of batteries to electric vehicles, (iv) the reduced annual vehicle tax for electric vehicles, (v) the non-payment of road tolls by electric vehicles, (vi) electric cars free boarding on classified national road ferries, and (vii) the favourable income tax calculation for employees benefitting from private use of company electric cars.

Objective

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Environmental aid

Form of aid

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Mainly tax exemptions

Budget

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Estimated around NOK 1 500 million per year

Duration

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Until 31 December 2017 for the VAT measures

Economic sectors

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Manufacture of vehicles (NACE C.28.1.1). Electric vehicles.

Name and address of the granting authority

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Ministry of Finance

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(a)

The applicant’s geological understanding of the geographical area in question, and how the licensees propose to perform efficient exploration for petroleum.

(b)

The relevant technical expertise of the applicant, and how this expertise may actively contribute to cost effective exploration and, as appropriate, the production of petroleum from the geographical area in question.

(c)

The applicant’s experience on the Norwegian Continental Shelf or equivalent relevant experience from other areas.

(d)

That the applicant has the satisfactory financial capacity to carry out exploration for and, as appropriate, production of petroleum in the geographical area in question.

(e)

If the applicant is or has been a licensee in a production license, the Ministry may take into account any form of inefficiency or lack of accountability demonstrated by the applicant as a licensee.

(f)

Production licenses will mainly be awarded to a joint venture where at least one licensee has drilled at least one well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as operator or has equivalent relevant operational experience outside the NCS.

(g)

Production licenses will mainly be awarded to two or more licensees, where at least one has experience as mentioned under f).

(h)

The appointed operator for production licenses in the Barents Sea must have drilled at least one well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as operator or have equivalent relevant operational experience outside the NCS.

(i)

For production licences in deep waters, both the appointed operator and at least one other licensee must have drilled at least one well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as operator or have equivalent relevant operational experience outside the NCS. In the production license one licensee must have drilled in deep waters as operator.

(j)

For production licenses where drilling of exploration wells in high pressure and/or high temperature (HTHP) is expected, the appointed operator and at least one other licensee must have drilled at least one well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as operator or have equivalent relevant operational experience outside the NCS. In the production license one licensee must have drilled a HTHP-well as operator.

Ministry of Petroleum and Energy

PO Box 8148 Dep.

NO-0033 Oslo

NORWAY

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

PO Box 600

NO-4003 Stavanger

NORWAY

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 232/16

1.

On 26 June 2015, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking Fonds Professionnel de Capital Investissement — Sociétés de Projets Industriels (‘SPI’, France) controlled by the management company Bpifrance Investissement, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bpifrance Participations, which is itself wholly owned by the public limited company BPI Groupe (‘BPI Groupe SA’, France) and the public limited company Constructions Industrielles De La Méditerranée (‘CNIM’, France) wish to acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and Article 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control of the undertaking SUNCNIM (France) by way of purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   BPI Groupe SA: plays a decisive role in regenerating French territories and invests in the development of growth sectors such as ecotechnology, biotechnology and digital services but also across all industrial and service sectors,

—   SPI: venture capital mutual fund, which invests as a prudent investor in companies fostering projects that provide new impetus to French industry,

—   CNIM: the CNIM Group designs and manufactures high-tech turnkey industrial equipment and plants, and provides expertise, research and development, services and operations in the fields of environment, energy, defence and industry,

—   SUNCNIM: building of concentrated solar power plants.

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 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 to it their observations on the proposed operation.

Observations must reach the Commission no later than 10 days following the date on which this notification is published. They can be sent to the Commission under reference number M.7642 — Banque publique d’investissement/CNIM/SUNCNIM by fax (+32 22964301), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post to the following address:

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 232/17

1.

On 8 July 2015, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertakings Aryzta AG (‘Aryzta’, Switzerland) and Lion Capital LLP (‘Lion Capital’, United Kingdom) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of the whole of the undertaking Picard Groupe SAS (‘Picard’, France) by way of purchase of securities.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   for Aryzta: holding company active in various food businesses and, through the Aryzta Food Group and its subsidiaries, in the manufacture and supply of bakery products to the retail and food services sectors,

—   for Lion Capital: private equity manager investing in businesses engaged in the production and/or sale of consumer-branded goods,

—   for Picard: retail distribution of frozen food through its own distribution network of specialised shops operating under the Picard brand.

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.

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 email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7669 — Lion Capital/Aryzta/Picard Groupe, to the following address: