CELEX: 62018TA0509
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-509/18: Judgment of the General Court of 19 December 2019 — Czech Republic v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Applicable time periods between multiple visits by the national control authorities — Announcement of on-the-spot checks — Implied notice — Articles 25 and 26 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 809/2014 — Flat rate financial correction)

24.2.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 61/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 December 2019 — Czech Republic v Commission
      (Case T-509/18) (1)
      
      (EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Applicable time periods between multiple visits by the national control authorities - Announcement of on-the-spot checks - Implied notice - Articles 25 and 26 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 809/2014 - Flat rate financial correction)
      (2020/C 61/33)
      Language of the case: Czech
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, J. Pavliš, O. Serdula and J. Vláčil, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Lewis, A. Sauka and K. Walkerová, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/873 of 13 June 2018 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) (OJ 2018 L 152, p. 29) in so far as it excludes expenditure of a total of EUR 151 116,65 incurred by the Czech Republic under the EAFRD.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/873 of 13 June 2018 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) in so far as the European Commission excluded under that decision expenditure of a total of EUR 151 116,65 incurred by the Czech Republic under the EAFRD;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Commission to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 399, 5.11.2018.