Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2023:731
Date: 2023-11-16
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: Third Chamber
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Netherlands

Order of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 16 November 2023 – Netherlands v Commission (Case T‑203/22) (1) (Action for annulment – EAGF – Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 – Undue payment – Letter of the Commission refusing the request for revision of its letter rejecting the request to extend the eight-year period for recovery – Act not open to challenge – Inadmissibility) Action for annulment – Actionable measures – Concept – Measures producing binding legal effects – Preparatory measures – Precluded – Commission letter refusing revision of the rejection of a request to extend the period provided for recovery of payments unduly paid under the EAGF – Preparatory measure not definitively laying down the position of the Commission – Inadmissibility (Art. 263 TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1306/2013, Art. 54(2), first subpara.) (see paragraphs 31-35, 46-51, 62, 63) Operative part 1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible. 2. The Kingdom of the Netherlands is ordered to pay the costs. 1 OJ C 237, 20.6.2022.