CELEX: 62017TA0609
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-609/17: Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2018 — France v Commission (EAGF — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by France — Export refunds on poultry meat — Flat-rate financial correction — Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EU) No 1306/2013 — Sound, fair and merchantable quality — Checks — Proportionality)

4.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/52
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2018 — France v Commission
      (Case T-609/17) (1)
      
      ((EAGF - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by France - Export refunds on poultry meat - Flat-rate financial correction - Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EU) No 1306/2013 - Sound, fair and merchantable quality - Checks - Proportionality))
      (2019/C 82/60)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: French Republic (represented by: F. Alabrune, D. Colas, B. Fodda and E. de Moustier, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Lewis and D. Bianchi, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU for annulment in part of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1144 of 26 June 2017 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 2017 L 165, p. 37), in so far as it excludes payments made by the French Republic under the EAGF in the amount of EUR 120 901 216,61.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 382, 13.11.2017.