CELEX: 62016TA0208
Language: en
Date: 2018-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-208/16: Judgment of the General Court of 5 February 2018 — Ranocchia v ERCEA (Research and technological development — Calls for proposals and related activities under the ERC Work Programme 2015 — Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) — Horizon 2020 — Decision of the ERCEA declaring ineligible the proposal submitted by the applicant — Project concerning the identification of mathematical algorithms facilitating the reading and analysis of certain ancient manuscripts — Misuse of powers — Error of fact — Error of law — Manifest error of assessment)

19.3.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 February 2018 — Ranocchia v ERCEA
   (Case T-208/16) (1)
   
   ((Research and technological development - Calls for proposals and related activities under the ERC Work Programme 2015 - Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) - Horizon 2020 - Decision of the ERCEA declaring ineligible the proposal submitted by the applicant - Project concerning the identification of mathematical algorithms facilitating the reading and analysis of certain ancient manuscripts - Misuse of powers - Error of fact - Error of law - Manifest error of assessment))
   (2018/C 104/41)
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Graziano Ranocchia (Rome, Italy) (represented by: C. Intino, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) (represented initially by: E. Chacon Mohedano, R. Maggio Panizza and L. Moreau, and subsequently by E. Chacon Mohedano, R. Maggio Panizza and F. Sgritta, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking the annulment of (i) ERCEA Decision Ares(2016) 1020667 of 26 February 2016, dismissing the applicant’s application for a review of the decision refusing to subsidise research proposal No 682937, entitled ‘PHercSchools2 — The Hellenistic Philosophical Schools in the Herculaneum Papyri’, (ii) ERCEA Decision Ares(2015) 5922529 of 17 December 2015, refusing to subsidise that research proposal, and (iii) any prior, subsequent or connected measure linked to those decisions, in particular the list of projects approved for the ‘ERC Consolidator Grant’ support programme made public by the ERCEA’s press release of 12 February 2016.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Graziano Ranocchia to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 243, 4.7.2016.