CELEX: 62017TA0051
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-51/17: Judgment of the General Court of 10 April 2019 — Poland v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from EU financing — Fruit and vegetable sector — Aid to producer groups — Expenditure effected by Poland — Weaknesses in key controls — Checks on recognition plans and on recognition criteria — Checks on applications for aid — Economic consistency — Reasonableness of expenditure — Systemic weakness — Risk to EAGF — Flat rate corrections of 25 %)

3.6.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 187/65
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 10 April 2019 — Poland v Commission
      (Case T-51/17) (1)
      
      (EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from EU financing - Fruit and vegetable sector - Aid to producer groups - Expenditure effected by Poland - Weaknesses in key controls - Checks on recognition plans and on recognition criteria - Checks on applications for aid - Economic consistency - Reasonableness of expenditure - Systemic weakness - Risk to EAGF - Flat rate corrections of 25 %)
      (2019/C 187/69)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Republic of Poland (represented by: B. Majczyna, K. Straś, M. Pawlicka and B. Paziewska, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (initially represented by: K. Skelly and A. Stobiecka-Kuik, and subsequently by: A. Stobiecka-Kuik and D. Milanowska, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU for partial annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/2018 of 15 November 2016 excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (JO 2016, L 312, p. 26) concerning the flat rate corrections applied in respect of the Republic of Poland.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action.
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Republic of Poland to pay, in addition to its own costs, three quarters of the costs incurred by the European Commission.
                  
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Commission to pay one quarter of its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 86, 20.3.2017.