CELEX: 62016TA0010
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-10/16: Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2018 — GABO:mi v Commission (Arbitration clause — Sixth and seventh framework programmes for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2002-2006 and 2007-2013) — Letters requesting reimbursement of part of the grants awarded — Debit note — Setting off of claims — Amendment of application — Admissibility — Eligibility of expenses — Funds held in trust — Duty to record costs in contractor’s accounts — Compliance with accounting rules in the State in which the contractor is established — Legal certainty — Legitimate expectations — Good governance — Transparency — Right to be heard — Proportionality)

12.11.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 408/46
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2018 — GABO:mi v Commission
      (Case T-10/16) (1)
      
      ((Arbitration clause - Sixth and seventh framework programmes for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2002-2006 and 2007-2013) - Letters requesting reimbursement of part of the grants awarded - Debit note - Setting off of claims - Amendment of application - Admissibility - Eligibility of expenses - Funds held in trust - Duty to record costs in contractor’s accounts - Compliance with accounting rules in the State in which the contractor is established - Legal certainty - Legitimate expectations - Good governance - Transparency - Right to be heard - Proportionality))
      (2018/C 408/58)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: GABO:mi Gesellschaft für Ablauforganisation:milliarium mbH & Co. KG (Munich, Germany) (represented by: M. Ahlhaus and C. Mayer, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: S. Delaude, S. Lejeune and M. Siekierzyńska, subsequently by S. Delaude and M. Siekierzyńska, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application, first, under Article 272 TFEU for a declaration that a claim mentioned in two information letters dated 2 December 2015 and in a debit note dated 2 December 2015 relating to a claim of EUR 1 770 417,29 does not exist and, second, under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of set-off decisions contained in seven letters dated 16 and 21 December 2015, 14 January, 26 April and 3 May 2016 seeking to offset each payment concerned against the applicant’s alleged debt and of that debit note and those information letters.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Declares unfounded the claim of the European Commission against GABO:mi Gesellschaft für Ablauforganisation:milliarium mbH & Co. KG mentioned in debit note No 3241514917 dated 2 December 2015 and in the two information letters dated 2 December 2015 so far as concerns the declared expenses relating to the ‘central travel/meeting budget’ and the liquidated damages relating to it;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders each party to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 111, 29.3.2016.