Case T-230/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 12 September 2007 — Finland v Commission (EAGGF — Guarantee section — System of control of area aid in certain regions — Expenditure excluded from Community financing)
Date: 2007-10-20
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU financing, European Commission, Finland, action for annulment (EU), aid system, guarantee, utilised agricultural area

20.10.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 247/25

2. Dismisses the action as to the remainder.

3. Orders each party to bear its own costs.

3. Orders the applicant to bear four-fifths of its own costs and to pay
four-fifths of the costs incurred by the Commission. The Commis-
sion shall bear a fifth of its own costs and pay a fifth of the costs
incurred by González y Díez.

(1) OJ C 71, 20.3.2004.

(1) OJ C 71, 20.3.2004.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 September
2007 — API v Commission

(Case T-36/04) (1)

(Access to documents — Pleadings lodged by the Commission
in proceedings before the Court of Justice and the Court of
First Instance — Decision refusing access)

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber)
of 12 September 2007 — Finland v Commission

(Case T-230/04) (1)

(EAGGF — Guarantee section — System of control of area
excluded from
aid in certain regions — Expenditure

Community financing)

(2007/C 247/38)

Language of the case: Finnish

(2007/C 247/37)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Parties

initially by A.
Applicant: Republic of Finland (represented:
Guimaraes-Purokoski and T. Pynnä and subsequently by A.
Guimaraes-Purokoski and E. Bygglin, Agents)

Applicant: Association de la presse internationale a.s.b.l. (API)
(Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: S. Völcker, F. Louis and J.
Heithecker, avocats)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: M. Huttunen and L. Visaggio, Agents)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: C. Docksey and P. Aalto, Agents)

Re:

Re:

Application for the annulment of the Commission's decision of
20 November 2003 rejecting an application by the applicant for
access to the pleadings lodged by the Commission in proceed-
ings before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance

Operative part of the judgment

of

for

annulment

the Guarantee Section of

Application
Commission Decision
2004/136/EC of 4 February 2004 excluding from Community
financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States
the European Agricultural
under
Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2004 L 40, p. 31)
in so far as it excludes certain expenditure incurred by the
Republic of Finland in connection with area aid in certain
regions, because of the insufficiency of the system of control
applied.

The Court:

Operative part of the judgment

1. Annuls the Commission's decision of 20 November 2003 in so far
as it refused access to the pleadings submitted by the Commission
before the Court of
Justice in Case C-466/98 Commission v
United Kingdom; Case C-467/98 Commission v Denmark; Case
C-468/98 Commission v Sweden; Case C-469/98 Commission v
Finland; Case C-471/98 Commission v Belgium; Case C-472/98
Commission v Luxembourg; Case C-475/98 Commission v
Austria and Case C-476/98 Commission v Germany and before
in Case T-342/99 Airtours v
the Court of First
Commission;

Instance

2. Dismisses the remainder of the action;

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the Republic of Finland to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 146, 29.5.2004 (formerly Case C-162/04).