62022TJ0273_INF
Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 26 July 2023 –Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica v Commission
(Case T‑273/22) (
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(Arbitration clause – ‘Horizon 2020 – Framework Programme for Research and Innovation’ (2014-2020) – ‘Detecting and ANalysing TErrorist-related online contents and financing activities – DANTE’ project – Grant agreement – Action for annulment – Final audit report – Debit note – Acts not amenable to review – Acts forming part of a purely contractual context from which they are not separable – Inadmissibility – Staff costs – Bonuses calculated on the basis of commercial targets – Ineligibility – Legitimate expectations)
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Action for annulment – Actionable measures – Concept – Acts producing binding legal effects – Final audit report of the Commission – Debit note issued by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) – Not included – Acts forming part of a purely contractual context and being inseparable from that context – Inadmissibility
(Arts 263 and 272 TFEU)
(see paragraphs 43-53)
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Industry – Action necessary to ensure the competitiveness of industry – Research and technological development – Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation – Grant agreement – Eligible costs – Concept – Staff costs – Bonuses awarded to employees of a beneficiary, calculated on the basis of commercial targets – Not included
(see paragraphs 60-63, 74-81, 83-89, 101, 102)
Operative part
The Court:
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Dismisses the action;
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Orders Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica SpA to pay the costs.
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)	OJ C 276, 18.7.2022.