Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2024:351
Date: 2024-04-25
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Seventh Chamber
Subject matter: Research and technological development
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded
Origin: France

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 25 April 2024 – CIMV v Commission (Case C‑366/23 P) (1) ( Appeal – Research and technological development – Grant agreement concluded in the context of the ‘Horizon 2020’ Framework Programme for Research and Innovation – Recovery of a debt – Repayment by instalments – Substantive accuracy of the facts – Manifest error of assessment – Obligation to state reasons – Legitimate expectations – Right to be heard – Proportionality ) 1. Appeal – Grounds – Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of Justice of the assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the facts or evidence have been distorted – Plea alleging distortion of the facts – Need to indicate precisely the evidence alleged to have been distorted and show the errors of appraisal which led to that distortion – Requirement that the distortion be obvious from the documents in the file (Art. 256(1), second subpara., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 168(1)(d)) (see paragraph 27) 2. Union law – Principles – Protection of legitimate expectations – Conditions – Specific assurances given by the authorities (see paragraph 30) 3. Appeal – Grounds – Lack of specific criticism of a point of the General Court’s reasoning and of legal arguments in support of the appeal – Inadmissibility (Art. 256(1), second subpara., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 168(1)(d) and 169(2)) (see paragraph 32) 4. Fundamental rights – Charter of Fundamental Rights – Right to good administration – Right to be heard – Scope (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 41(2)) (see paragraphs 43, 45, 47, 50) Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the appeal; 2. Orders Compagnie industrielle de la matière végétale (CIMV) to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission. 1 OJ C 271, 31.7.2023.