CELEX: 62016TA0463
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-463/16: Judgment of the General Court of 26 September 2018 — Portugal v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Area-related aids — Reductions and exclusions for failure to comply with the rules on cross compliance — Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 — Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 — Regulation (EC) No 885/2006 — Proportionality)

26.11.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 427/43
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 26 September 2018 — Portugal v Commission
      (Case T-463/16) (1)
      
      (EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Area-related aids - Reductions and exclusions for failure to comply with the rules on cross compliance - Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 - Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 - Regulation (EC) No 885/2006 - Proportionality)
      (2018/C 427/54)
      Language of the case: Portuguese
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Portuguese Republic (represented by: L. Inez Fernandes, M. Figueiredo, J. Saraiva de Almeida and P. Estêvão, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Sauka, acting as Agent, M. Marques Mendes and A. Dias Henriques, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1059 of 20 June 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) (OJ 2016 L 173, p. 59) insofar as it relates to the Portuguese Republic.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Portuguese Republic to bear its own costs and to pay three quarters of those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear one quarter of its costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 392, 24.10.2016.