CELEX: 62019TB0516
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-516/19: Order of the General Court of 11 June 2020 — VDV eTicket Service v Commission and INEA (Arbitration clause — ‘Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation’ (2014-2020) — Project ‘European Travellers Club: Account-Based Travelling across the European Union — ETC’ — Grant agreement — Decision of INEA declaring ineligible certain costs incurred in the context of subcontracts — Misidentification of the defendant — Measure which is part of a purely contractual context from which it is inseparable — Legitimate expectations — Action in part inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

10.8.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/25
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 11 June 2020 — VDV eTicket Service v Commission and INEA
      (Case T-516/19) (1)
      
      (Arbitration clause - ‘Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation’ (2014-2020) - Project ‘European Travellers Club: Account-Based Travelling across the European Union — ETC’ - Grant agreement - Decision of INEA declaring ineligible certain costs incurred in the context of subcontracts - Misidentification of the defendant - Measure which is part of a purely contractual context from which it is inseparable - Legitimate expectations - Action in part inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
      (2020/C 262/33)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: VDV eTicket Service GmbH & Co. KG (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: A. Bartosch, lawyer)
      
         Defendants: European Commission (represented by: R. Pethke and M. Siekierzyńska, acting as Agents), Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (represented by: I. Ramallo and P. Rosa Plaza, acting as Agents, and R. van der Hout and C. Wagner, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      First, application under Article 272 TFEU seeking a declaration that INEA’s failure to acknowledge, in its letter Ares(2019)3151305 of 13 May 2019, costs in the amount of EUR 407 443,04 in the context of the Horizon 2020 programme, is unlawful, and second and in the alternative, application under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of that letter in so far as it declared ineligible the costs in that amount.
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The action is dismissed in part as inadmissible and in part as manifestly lacking any foundation in law.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  VDV eTicket Service GmbH & Co. KG shall pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 319, 23.9.2019.