CELEX: C2002/144/11
Language: en
Date: 2002-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) 18 April 2002 in Case C-332/00: Kingdom of Belgium v Commission of the European Communities (Action for annulment — Clearance of EAGGF accounts — Non-recognition of expenditure — Financial years 1995 to 1997)

C 144/8                  EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                          15.6.2002
      which the insured person received a disability pension under a        concentrated butter intended for the manufacture of pastry
      national accident insurance scheme, without providing for the         products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs and, second, partial
      possibility of a prolongation of that period where a benefit of       annulment of Commission Decision 2000/449/EC of 5 July
      such a kind was paid under the legislation of another Member          2000 excluding from Community financing certain expendi-
      State.                                                                ture incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee
                                                                            Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
4.    Article 9a of Regulation No 1408/71, as amended and                   Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2000 L 180, p. 49) in so far as it excludes
      updated by Regulation No 118/97, a provision which is                 from Community financing expenditure in the amount of
      incompatible with Articles 48(2) and 51 of the EC Treaty in           EUR 160 225 645 and EUR 3 188 322 respectively incurred
      so far as it excludes the possibility of taking into account, for     by the Kingdom of Belgium in the context of aid for the sale at
      the purposes of the prolongation of the reference period under        a reduced price of butter and the grant of aid for concentrated
      the legislation of a Member State, the periods during which           butter intended for the manufacture of pastry products, ice-
      industrial accident benefits were paid under the legislation of       cream and other foodstuffs, the Court (Sixth Chamber),
      another Member State, is invalid.                                     composed of: F. Macken, President of the Chamber, C. Gul-
                                                                            mann, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen and J. N. Cunha Rodrigues
                                                                            (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; L. Hew-
                                                                            lett, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
(1) OJ C 285 of 7.10.2000.                                                  18 April 2002, in which it:
                                                                            1.    Dismisses the application;
                                                                            2.    Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                     (1) OJ C 355 of 9.12.2000.
                          (Sixth Chamber)
                            18 April 2002
in Case C-332/00: Kingdom of Belgium v Commission of
                  the European Communities (1)                                               JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
(Action for annulment — Clearance of EAGGF accounts —                                               (Fourth Chamber)
Non-recognition of expenditure — Financial years 1995 to
                                1997)
                                                                                                        7 May 2002
                           (2002/C 144/11)
                                                                            in Case C-364/00: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                                        ties v Kingdom of the Netherlands (1)
                     (Language of the case: French)
                                                                            (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations —
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published      Directive 97/70/EC — Failure to implement within the
                    in the European Court Reports)                                                   prescribed period)
                                                                                                      (2002/C 144/12)
In Case C-332/00, Kingdom of Belgium (Agent: A. Snoecx) v
Commission of the European Communities (Agents: A. Bordes                                       (Language of the case: Dutch)
and M. Niejahr): Application for, first, annulment of Com-
mission Decision 2000/448/EC of 5 July 2000 amending
Decision 1999/187/EC on the clearance of the accounts                       (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
presented by the Member States in respect of the expenditure                                   in the European Court Reports)
for 1995 of the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural
Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2000 L 180,
p. 46) in so far as it excludes from Community financing
expenditure in the amount of BEF 50 763 827 incurred by the                 In Case C-364/00, Commission of the European Communities
Kingdom of Belgium in the context of aid for the sale at a                  (Agent: T. van Rijn) v Kingdom of the Netherlands (Agent:
reduced price of butter and the grant of aid for butter and                 J. van Bakel): Application for a declaration that, by failing to