Order — ECLI:EU:T:2017:620
Date: 2017-09-13
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Fifth Chamber
Subject matter: Economic, social and territorial cohesion
Procedure: Action for annulment - successful
Origin: Germany

Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 September 2017 — Germany v Commission (Case T‑114/10) (Action for annulment — ERDF — Reduction in financial aid — Programme Interreg II/C programme ‘Rhine-Meuse flood’ — Failure to comply with the time limit for adoption of a decision — Infringement of essential procedural requirements — Action manifestly well founded) 1. Actions for annulment — Pleas in law — Infringement of essential procedural requirements — To be considered of the Court’s own motion — Condition — Compliance with the principle that the parties should be heard (Art. 263 TFEU) (see paras 67, 68) 2. Acts of the institutions — Temporal application — Procedural rules — Immediate entry into force (Council Regulation No 1083/2006, Art. 100(5)) (see paras 75, 78) Application for ACTION on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Commission Decision C(2009) 10712 of 23 December 2009 on the reduction in the financial aid granted to the Rhine-Meuse flood protection programme under Community initiative programme Interreg II/C in the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) pursuant to Commission Decision C(97)3742 of 18 December 1997 (ERDF No 970010008). Operative part 1. Commission Decision C(2009) 10712 of 23 December 2009 on the reduction in the financial aid granted to the Rhine-Meuse flood protection programme under Community initiative programme Interreg II/C in the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) pursuant to Commission Decision C(97)3742 of 18 December 1997 (ERDF No 970010008) is annulled insofar as it concerns the Federal Republic of Germany. 2. The European Commission shall bear its own costs and pay the costs incurred by the Federal Republic of Germany. 3. The French Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall bear their own costs.