CELEX: 62009TA0509
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-509/09: Judgment of the General Court of 18 June 2013 — Portugal v Commission (Fisheries — Financial contribution for the implementation of control and surveillance systems — Decision not to reimburse expenditure incurred for the purchase of two Ocean Patrol Vessels (OPV) — Article 296 EC — Directive 93/36/EEC — Legitimate expectations — Obligation to state reasons)

3.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 225/62
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 June 2013 — Portugal v Commission
   (Case T-509/09) (1)
   
   (Fisheries - Financial contribution for the implementation of control and surveillance systems - Decision not to reimburse expenditure incurred for the purchase of two Ocean Patrol Vessels (OPV) - Article 296 EC - Directive 93/36/EEC - Legitimate expectations - Obligation to state reasons)
   2013/C 225/138
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Portuguese Republic (represented: initially by L. Inez Fernandes, A. Trindade Mimoso and A. Miranda Boavida, and subsequently by I. Inez Fernandes, H. Leitão and V. Coelho, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouquet and M. Afonso, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for annulment of Commission Decision of 14 October 2009 declaring ineligible for European Union financial support under Commission Decision 2002/978/EC of 10 December 2002 on the eligibility of expenditure on a number of operations to be incurred by certain Member States in 2002 in implementing the control, inspection and surveillance systems applicable to the common fisheries policy (OJ 2002 L 338, p. 33) expenditure associated with the purchase of two Ocean Patrol Vessels (OPV), to be used partly for the control and surveillance of fishing activities.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 80, 27.3.2010.