Order — ECLI:EU:T:2017:228
Date: 2017-03-27
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Fifth Chamber
Based on: Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (consolidated version 2008)
Subject matter: Research and technological development
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Germany

Order of the General Court of 27 March 2017 — Frank v Commission (Case T-603/15) 1 (Action for annulment — Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation — Calls for proposals and related activities under the ERC Work Programme 2015 — Decision of the ERCEA declaring the proposal submitted by the applicant ineligible — Implied decision of the Commission rejecting the administrative appeal relating to the decision of the ERCEA — Incorrect designation of the defendant — Inadmissibility) Language of the case: German Parties Applicant: Regine Frank (Bonn, Germany) (represented by: initially W. Trautner, subsequently by E. Niitväli and M. Reysen, then by E. Niitväli, M. Reysen and S. Wachs, and finally S. Conrad, lawyers) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lyal and B. Conte, acting as agents) Re: Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the decision of the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) of 5 June 2015 relating, in the context of the ‘ERC starting grant’ programme, to proposal No 680151 of the applicant — which was not given a positive evaluation during step 1 and was not admitted to step 2 of the evaluation — and the Commission’s implied decision rejecting the applicant’s administrative appeal pursuant to Article 22(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 of 19 December 2002 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes (OJ 2003 L 11, p. 1). Operative part of the order 1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible. 2. Ms Regine Frank and the European Commission shall bear their own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 48, 8.2.2016.