CELEX: 62013CA0429
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-429/13 P: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 22 October 2014  — Kingdom of Spain v European Commission (Appeal — Cohesion fund — Reduction of financial assistance — Irregularities in the application of the public procurement legislation — Adoption of the decision by the European Commission — Failure to comply with the time-limit — Consequences)

8.12.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 439/10
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 22 October 2014 — Kingdom of Spain v European Commission
   (Case C-429/13 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeal - Cohesion fund - Reduction of financial assistance - Irregularities in the application of the public procurement legislation - Adoption of the decision by the European Commission - Failure to comply with the time-limit - Consequences))
   (2014/C 439/13)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Rubio González, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: B. Conte and A. Tokár, acting as Agents, assisted by J. Rivas Andrés, abogado)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union in Spain v Commission (T-384/10, EU:T:2013:277);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision C(2010) 4147 of 30 June 2010, reducing the assistance granted from the Cohesion Fund to the following (groups of) projects: ‘Water supply to settlements in the Guadiana basin: Andévalo area’ (2000.ES.16.C.PE.133), ‘Drainage and water treatment in the Guadalquivir basin: Guadaira, Aljarafe and the areas of natural protection of the Guadalquivir’ (2000.ES.16.C.PE.066) and ‘Water supply to multi-municipal systems in the provinces of Granada and Malaga’ (2002.ES.16.C.PE.061);
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs of the Kingdom of Spain and to bear its own costs of both the proceedings at first instance and of the present appeal proceedings.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 260, 7.9.2013.