# C_2016098EN.01004101.xml

| 14.3.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 98/41 |
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14.3.2016

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 98/41

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Judgment of the General Court of 28 January 2016 — Slovenia v Commission

(Case T-667/14) (1)

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((EAGGF - ‘Guarantee’ Section - EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Verification of small parcels - Lack of evidence of serious and reasonable doubt - Extrapolation of on-site inspection results))

(2016/C 098/53)

Language of the case: Slovene

Parties

Parties

Applicant: The Republic of Slovenia (represented by: L. Bembič, acting as Agent)

Applicant:

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Rous Demiri and D. Triantafyllou, acting as Agents)

Defendant:

Re:

Re:

Application for partial annulment of Commission implementing decision 2014/459/EU of 9 July 2014 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the ‘Guarantee’ Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2014 L 205, p. 62), insofar as it excludes certain expenditure incurred by the Republic of Slovenia.

Operative part of the judgment

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

| 1. | Annuls Commission implementing decision 2014/459/EU of 9 July 2014 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the ‘Guarantee’ Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), insofar as it excludes from European Union financing, so far as concerns the Republic of Slovenia, the sum of EUR 85 780,08 for the financial year 2010, of EUR 115 956,46 for the financial year 2011 and of EUR 131 269,23 for the financial year 2012; |
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Annuls Commission implementing decision 2014/459/EU of 9 July 2014 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the ‘Guarantee’ Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), insofar as it excludes from European Union financing, so far as concerns the Republic of Slovenia, the sum of EUR 85 780,08 for the financial year 2010, of EUR 115 956,46 for the financial year 2011 and of EUR 131 269,23 for the financial year 2012;

| 2. | Dismisses the remainder of the application; |
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Dismisses the remainder of the application;

| 3. | Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs, and to pay nine-tenths of those incurred by the Republic of Slovenia; |
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Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs, and to pay nine-tenths of those incurred by the Republic of Slovenia;

| 4. | Orders the Republic of Slovenia to bear one-tenth of its own costs. |
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4.

Orders the Republic of Slovenia to bear one-tenth of its own costs.

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(1)  OJ C 395, 10.11.2014.

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