Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2017:304
Date: 2017-05-04
Language of the case: Italian
Subject matter: Research and technological development
Procedure: Arbitration clause - unfounded
Origin: Italy

summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Abstract statement — Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 21, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see para. 226) 7. EU budget — EU financial assistance — Obligation on the beneficiary to comply with the conditions for grant of the assistance — Financing covering only expenses actually incurred — No demonstration that the expenses actually incurred — Ineligible expenses — Proper technical implementation of projects forming the subject-matter of EU financial assistance — Irrelevant (Art. 317 TFEU) (see paras 246-248) 8. Judicial proceedings — General Court seised under an arbitration clause — Challenge to the validity of a set-off decision — Decision for extra-judicial set-off between debts and claims adopted by the Commission on the basis of Regulation No 1605/2002 — Measure falling within EU law — Measure open to an annulment action — Inadmissibility (Arts 263 TFEU and 272 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1605/2002) (see paras 254-256) 9. Judicial proceedings — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Identification of the subject-matter of the dispute — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Action seeking compensation for loss caused by an EU institution — Lack of precision as to the damage suffered — Inadmissibility (Article 340 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c) and (d)) (see paras 275-277) Re: ACTION based on Article 272 TFEU and seeking a ruling that the Commission failed to fulfil its financial obligations resulting from several grant agreements which it concluded with the applicant under the Sixth framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities, contributing to the creation of the European Research Area and to innovation (2002-2006) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013), a declaration that the Commission acted unlawfully in offsetting the amounts claimed by the applicant, an order for payment by the Commission of the sums owed to the applicant under those grant agreements, together with default interest and monetary revaluation, and compensation in respect of the damage which the applicant claims to have suffered. Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Meta Group Srl to pay the costs.