CELEX: 62018TA0026
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-26/18: Judgment of the General Court of 12 March 2019 — France v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by France — One-off and flat-rate financial corrections — Area-related aid scheme — Land Parcel Identification System — Determination of eligible areas — Maintenance of agricultural land in good agricultural and environmental condition — Landscape features — Grazable heathland — National monitoring system based on a non-compliant definition of eligible areas — Proportionality — Obligation to state reasons — Conformity Clearance — Most likely error — Error of law)

29.4.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 148/50
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 March 2019 — France v Commission
      (Case T-26/18) (1)
      
      (EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by France - One-off and flat-rate financial corrections - Area-related aid scheme - Land Parcel Identification System - Determination of eligible areas - Maintenance of agricultural land in good agricultural and environmental condition - Landscape features - Grazable heathland - National monitoring system based on a non-compliant definition of eligible areas - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons - Conformity Clearance - Most likely error - Error of law)
      (2019/C 148/47)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: French Republic (represented by: F. Alabrune, D. Colas, A.-L. Desjonquères and S. Horrenberger, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Lewis and D. Triantafyllou, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking the partial annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/2014 of 8 November 2017 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 2017 L 292, p. 61).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 112, 26.3.2018.