CELEX: 62015TA0145
Language: en
Date: 2017-02-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-145/15: Judgment of the General Court of 16 February 2017 — Romania v Commission (EAGGF and EAFRD — Area-related measures — Expenditure excluded from financing — Flat-rate financial corrections — Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 — Obligation to state reasons — Proportionality)

3.4.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/45
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 February 2017 — Romania v Commission
   (Case T-145/15) (1)
   
   ((EAGGF and EAFRD - Area-related measures - Expenditure excluded from financing - Flat-rate financial corrections - Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 - Obligation to state reasons - Proportionality))
   (2017/C 104/63)
   Language of the case: Romanian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Romania (represented initially by: R.-H Radu, V. Angelescu, R. Mangu, D. Bulancea, N. Horumbă, E. Mierlea and T. Crainic, and subsequently by: R. Radu, V. Angelescu, R. Mangu, N. Horumbă, E. Mierlea and T. Crainic, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Biolan and G. von Rintelen, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment in part of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/103 of 16 January 2015 excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2015 L 16, p. 33).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/103 of 16 January 2015 excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in so far as it concerns Romania;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Romania.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 178, 1.6.2015.