CELEX: 62016TA0028
Language: en
Date: 2017-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-28/16: Judgment of the General Court of 3 April 2017 — Germany v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Rural development — Land consolidation and village renewal — Criteria used for selection of operations — Principle of sincere cooperation — Subsidiarity — Legitimate expectations — Proportionality — Obligation to state reasons)

15.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 151/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 April 2017 — Germany v Commission
   (Case T-28/16) (1)
   
   ((EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Rural development - Land consolidation and village renewal - Criteria used for selection of operations - Principle of sincere cooperation - Subsidiarity - Legitimate expectations - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons))
   (2017/C 151/44)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented: initially by T. Henze and A. Lippstreu, and subsequently by T. Henze and D. Klebs, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. Aquilina and B. Eggers, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Article 1 and the Annex of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2098, of 13 November 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 303, p. 35), in so far as the payments made by the agency responsible for payment in the Federal Republic of Germany under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), in the total amount of EUR 7 719 920,30, are excluded from EU financing.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 98, 14.3.2016.