CELEX: C2005/205/32
Language: en
Date: 2005-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 22 June 2005 in Case T-102/03 Centro informativo per la collaborazione tra le imprese e la promozione degli investimenti in Sicilia SpA (CIS) v Commission of the European Communities (European Regional Development Fund — Withdrawal of financial assistance — Failure to take into consideration expenditure committed by the beneficiary of the assistance — Article 24 of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 — Obligation to give reasons — Raised by the Court of its own motion)

20.8.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 205/19
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 22 June 2005
   in Case T-102/03 Centro informativo per la collaborazione tra le imprese e la promozione degli investimenti in Sicilia SpA (CIS) v Commission of the European Communities (1)
   
   (European Regional Development Fund - Withdrawal of financial assistance - Failure to take into consideration expenditure committed by the beneficiary of the assistance - Article 24 of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 - Obligation to give reasons - Raised by the Court of its own motion)
   (2005/C 205/32)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Case T-102/03: Centro informativo per la collaborazione tra le imprese e la promozione degli investimenti in Sicilia SpA (CIS), established in Catania (Italy), represented by A. Scuderi and G. Motta, lawyers, against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: E. de March and L. Flynn, assisted by A. Dal Ferro, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxembourg) — action for annulment of Commission Decision C (2002) 4155 of 15 November 2002, relative to the withdrawal of assistance from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) granted by Commission Decision C (93) 256/4 of 16 February 1993 in the form of a global grant in respect of the activities of an information centre for collaboration between undertakings and the promotion of investment and recovery of the advance paid by the Commission as part of that assistance — the Court of First Instance (First Chamber), composed of J.D. Cooke, President, R. García-Valdecasas and I. Labucka, Judges; J. Palacio González, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 22 June 2005, in which it:
   
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               Annuls Commission Decision C (2002) 4155 of 15 November 2002 on the withdrawal of assistance from the European Regional Development Fund granted by Commission Decision C (93) 256/4 of 16 February 1993 in so far as it withdraws assistance concerning the expenditure effected by the Centro informativo per la collaborazione tra le imprese e la promozione degli investimenti in Sicilia SpA in the certified amount of ITL 688 505 743;
            
         
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               Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the applicant.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 112 of 10.5.2003.