Order — ECLI:EU:T:2010:423
Date: 2010-10-05
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: First Chamber
Subject matter: Economic, social and territorial cohesion;European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Netherlands

Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 5 October 2010 – Provincie Groningen and Provincie Drenthe v Commission (Case T-69/09) Annulment action – ERDF – Decision reducing financial assistance and ordering partial repayment of sums paid – Regional body – No direct concern – Inadmissibility Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Whether directly concerned – Criteria – Decision of the Commission, addressed to a Member State, reducing financial assistance from the European Regional Development Fund and requiring partial reimbursement of sums paid – Action brought by regional bodies designated as beneficiaries of the assistance – Not directly concerned – Inadmissibility (Art. 230, fourth para., EC) (see paras 30-34, 37-39, 41-42, 45, 53-54) Re: APPLICATION for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 8355 of 11 December 2008 on the reduction of the aid from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the framework of the single programming document for the Groningen-Drenthe region (Netherlands) coming under objective 2 – No 97.07.13.003 – granted in accordance with Commission Decision C(1997) 1362 of 26 May 1997. Operative part 1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible. 2. Provincie Groningen and Provincie Drenthe are ordered to pay the costs.