Translation of "Plat de premier débit " (French → English) :

LAUNCH OF FIRST FRENCH AND EUROPEAN PROJECT BOND FOR SUPERFAST BROADBAND

In support of France's superfast broadband plan (France Très Haut Débit), which is "the Government's biggest infrastructure programme ", Axione Infrastructures is conducting the very first issue in France of "project bonds", an innovative form of finance launched by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) in 2012, the aim of which is to speed up the mobilisation of private capital for European infrastructure projects, in particular the roll-out of fibre optics in sparsely populated areas ("public initiative areas").

The first very high-speed broadband project to be financed by Caisse des Dépôts under the EUR 20bn loan allocation from savings funds, it is also the first loan to be signed at the national level by Caisse des Dépôts for a very high-speed broadband network under the National Fund for a Digital Society, which it manages on behalf of the Government under Investments for the Future.

If today the differences between an area where only narrowband Internet is available (dial-up) and an area where broadband exists means that the former is a ‘white’ area, likewise an area that lacks a next generation broadband infrastructure, but may still have one basic broadband infrastructure in place should also be considered a ‘white’ area.

By its appeal, Deutsche SiSi-Werke GmbH Co. Betriebs KG seeks to have set aside the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 28 January 2004 in Joined Cases T‑146/02 to T‑153/02 Deutsche SiSi-Werke v OHIM(Flat-bottomed pouches) [2004] ECR II-447 (‘the judgment under appeal’), by which the Court of First Instance dismissed its actions against the decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 28 February 2002 (Cases R 719/1999‑2 to R 724/1999‑2, R 747/1999‑2 and R 748/1999‑2) refusing registration of eight three-dimensional ma ...[+++]rks consisting of different stand-up pouches for drinks (‘the contested decisions’).

The Commission has decided to let the exemption take effect from 1 March, 1990, the date of the first introduction of the standard Bass agreements until 31 December 2002; and, 1 January 1985 the date of introduction of the standard SN agreements until 31 December 2002, to enable both Bass and SN to base their commercial decisions to the remaining tenanted houses with a reasonable level of legal security.