Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2008:493
Date: 2008-11-13
Language of the case: Italian
Court formation: Seventh Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)
Concepts: Procedure for clearance of accounts;Admissibility and examination of applications, forms of order sought and pleas in law;General;Conditions subject to which expenditure is borne by the EAGGF
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Italy

summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based (Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see para. 41) 3. Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – EAGGF financing – Grant of aid and premiums (Art. 10 EC; Council Regulations Nos 729/70, Art. 8(1), and No 1258/1999, Art 1; Commission Regulation No 504/97, Art. 15(1)) (see paras 51-55) 4. Agriculture – EAGGF – Clearance of accounts – Disallowance of expenditure arising from irregularities in the application of the Community rules (see paras 56-58, 65, 98) 5. Acts of the institutions – Regulations – Regulation prescribing specific control measures (see para. 93) Re: ACTION for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2003/536/EC of 22 July 2003 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the ‘Guarantee’ Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2003 L 184, p. 42) to the extent that it excludes certain expenditure by the Italian Republic in the financial years 1999 to 2002. Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.