Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2018:53
Date: 2018-02-01
Language of the case: Greek
Court formation: Third Chamber
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Greece

Judgment of the General Court of 1 February 2018 — Greece v Commission (Case T-506/15) 1 (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Greece — Flat-rate financial corrections — Area-related aid scheme — Concept of permanent pasture — Conditions for imposing a flat-rate correction of 25% — Communication under Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 885/2006 — Article 31(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 — Cross-compliance — Monitoring of statutory management requirements — Monitoring of good agricultural and environmental conditions — Duty to state reasons — Deduction of a correction annulled by a judgment of the General Court) Language of the case: Greek Parties Applicant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: G. Kanellopoulos, E. Leftheriotou, O. Tsirkinidou and A. Vasilopoulou, acting as Agents) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: H. Kranenborg and D. Triantafyllou, acting as Agents) Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Gavela Llopis, acting as Agent) Re: Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1119 of 22 June 2015 excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2015 L 182, p. 39). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders the Hellenic Republic to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission; Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 371, 9.11.2015.