CELEX: 62005TA0370
Language: en
Date: 2008-09-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-370/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 September 2008 — France v Commission (EAGGF — Guarantee Section — Expenditure excluded from Community financing — Wine sector — Restructuring aid and conversion aid — Definition of eligible area)

25.10.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 272/18
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 September 2008 — France v Commission
   (Case T-370/05) (1)
   
   (EAGGF - Guarantee Section - Expenditure excluded from Community financing - Wine sector - Restructuring aid and conversion aid - Definition of eligible area)
   (2008/C 272/32)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: French Republic (represented: initially by G. de Bergues and A. Colomb, and subsequently by G. de Bergues and A.-L. During, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Nolin, acting as Agent)
   Re:
   Action for annulment of Commission Decision 2005/579/EC of 20 July 2005 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2005 L 199, p. 84), inasmuch as it excludes from Community financing certain expenditure in respect of a correction relating to determination of the areas eligible for aid for restructuring and conversion of vineyards for the 2001-2003 accounting period.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2005/579/EC of 20 July 2005, Commission Decision of 20 July 2005 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) inasmuch as it excludes from Community financing the sum of EUR 13 519 122,05 in respect of a correction relating to determination of the areas eligible for aid for restructuring and conversion of vineyards for the 2001-2003 accounting period.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 315, 10.12.2005.