Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| European flag | Official Journal  of the European Union | EN  Series C |

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Judgment of the General Court of 26 July 2023 — Engineering — Ingegneria Informatica v Commission and REA

(Case T-222/22) [(1)](#ntr1-C_202300134EN.000101-E0001)

(Arbitration clause - ‘Horizon 2020’ Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) - ‘aDvanced sOcial enGineering And vulNerability Assessment Framework (Dogana)’ project - Grant agreement - Action for annulment - Final audit report - Debit note - Acts not open to challenge - Acts forming part of a purely contractual context from which they are not separable - Inadmissibility - Identification of the defendant - Lack of jurisdiction - Personnel costs - Bonuses calculated on the basis of commercial targets - Ineligibility - Legitimate expectations)

(C/2023/134)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Engineering — Ingegneria Informatica SpA (Rome, Italy) (represented by: S. Villata, L. Montevecchi and C. Oncia, lawyers)

Defendants: European Commission (represented by: M. Ilkova and S. Romoli, acting as Agents), European Research Executive Agency (represented by S. Payan-Lagrou and V. Canetti, acting as Agents, and by D. Gullo, lawyer)

Re:

By its action based on Articles 263 and 272 TFEU, the applicant seeks, in essence, first, the annulment of a number of acts of the European Commission and of the European Research Executive Agency (REA) concerning the implementation of grant agreement 653618, relating to the project entitled ‘aDvanced sOcial enGineering And vulNerability Assessment Framework (Dogana)’ (‘the project’) and, second, a declaration that certain costs are eligible for financing under that agreement and, accordingly, that the Commission and the REA are not entitled to seek reimbursement of the sums corresponding to those costs.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action. |

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| 2. | Orders Engineering — Ingegneria Informatica SpA to pay the costs. |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/134/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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