CELEX: 62019TB0188
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-188/19: Order of the General Court of 24 October 2019 — United Kingdom v Commission (Action for annulment — Research and technological development and space — Seventh framework programme of the Union — Audit — Failure to fill out work timesheets — Personnel costs declared ineligible — Decision of the Commission to adopt the audit report as final — Inadmissibility)

23.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 432/57
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 24 October 2019 — United Kingdom v Commission
      (Case T-188/19) (1)
      
      (Action for annulment - Research and technological development and space - Seventh framework programme of the Union - Audit - Failure to fill out work timesheets - Personnel costs declared ineligible - Decision of the Commission to adopt the audit report as final - Inadmissibility)
      (2019/C 432/68)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: S. Brandon and Z. Lavery, Agents, and by T. Johnston and J. Scott, Barristers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lyal, A. Kyratsou and M. Siekierzyńska, Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 272 TFEU seeking a declaration that, in adopting as final the Final Audit Report, bearing reference number 14-BA 226-013 concerning the implementation of the Combine, EUFAR and THOR grant agreements the beneficiary of which is the Met Office, the national meteorological service attached, within the United Kingdom Government, to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Commission failed correctly to interpret and apply the contractual provisions relating to those projects.
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      
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                     The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
                  
               
            
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                     The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is ordered to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 172, 20.5.2019.