CELEX: 62007TA0428
Language: en
Date: 2010-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-428/07 and T-455/07: Judgment of the General Court of 17 June 2010 — CEVA v Commission (Arbitration clause — Contracts entered into under a specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of ‘Quality of life and management of living resources (1998-2002)’ — Seahealth and Biopal projects — Debit notes — Applications for annulment — Reclassification of the actions — Admissibility — Rule that the parties should be heard and rights of the defence — Recovery of all the financial contributions paid by the European Union — Serious financial irregularities)

31.7.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/33
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 June 2010 — CEVA v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-428/07 and T-455/07) (1)
   
   (Arbitration clause - Contracts entered into under a specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of ‘Quality of life and management of living resources (1998-2002)’ - Seahealth and Biopal projects - Debit notes - Applications for annulment - Reclassification of the actions - Admissibility - Rule that the parties should be heard and rights of the defence - Recovery of all the financial contributions paid by the European Union - Serious financial irregularities)
   2010/C 209/47
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Centre d'étude et de valorisation des algues SA (CEVA) (Pleubian, France) (represented by: J.-M. Peyrical, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: initially by L. Escobar Guerrero and W. Roels, then by W. Roels, acting as Agents, and E. Bouttier, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment, in Case T-428/07, of debit note No 3240908670 of 20 September 2007, relating to the Seahealth project and, in Case T-455/07, of debit note No 3240909271 of 4 October 2007, relating to the Biopal contract, and that the Commission be ordered to reimburse those debit notes in favour of CEVA.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders each party to bear half of its own costs and half of the costs incurred by the other party.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 22, 26.1.2008.