CELEX: 62013TA0365
Language: en
Date: 2015-02-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-365/13: Judgment of the General Court of 26 February 2015  — Lithuania v Commission (EAGGF — Guarantee Section — EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Rural development measures — ‘Natural handicaps’ and agri-environment — Appropriateness of controls — Flat-rate financial corrections — Proportionality)

13.4.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/26
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 26 February 2015 — Lithuania v Commission
   (Case T-365/13) (1)
   
   ((EAGGF - Guarantee Section - EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Rural development measures - ‘Natural handicaps’ and agri-environment - Appropriateness of controls - Flat-rate financial corrections - Proportionality))
   (2015/C 118/34)
   Language of the case: Lithuanian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Republic of Lithuania (represented by: D. Kriaučiūnas, R. Krasuckaitė and A. Petrauskaitė, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Steiblytė and G. von Rintelen, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2013/214/EU of 2 May 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 123, p. 11).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Annuls Commission Implementing Decision 2013/214/EU of 2 May 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) in so far as it imposes a financial correction of 5 % with respect to the agro-environmental measures connected with the criterion relating to the use of fertilisers;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Lithuania and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 284, 28.9.2013.