CELEX: 62013TA0245
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-245/13: Judgment of the General Court of 4 September 2015 — United Kingdom v Commission (EAGGF — Guarantee Section — EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Single payment scheme — Key controls — Ancillary controls — Articles 51, 53, 73 and 73a of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004)

19.10.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 346/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 4 September 2015 — United Kingdom v Commission
   (Case T-245/13) (1)
   
   ((EAGGF - Guarantee Section - EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Single payment scheme - Key controls - Ancillary controls - Articles 51, 53, 73 and 73a of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004))
   (2015/C 346/24)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented initially by C. Murrell, M. Holt and E. Jenkinson, and subsequently by M. Holt, acting as Agents, and by D. Wyatt QC, and V. Wakefield, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Rossi and K. Skelly, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for partial annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2013/123/EU of 26 February 2013 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2013 L 67, p. 20), as regards one entry in Annex I to the decision relating to a 5,19 % extrapolated correction applied to expenditure incurred in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) in the financial year 2010, amounting to EUR 16 513 582,57.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 189, 29.6.2013.