CELEX: 62007TA0262
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-262/07: Judgment of the General Court of 29 March 2012 — Lithuania v Commission (Agriculture — Common organisation of the markets — Measures to be adopted as a result of the accession of new Member States — 2003 Act of Accession — Determination of surplus stocks of agricultural products other than sugar, and the financial consequences of their elimination — Objective pursued by a provision of primary law — Decision 2007/361/EC)

12.5.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 138/12
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 29 March 2012 — Lithuania v Commission
   (Case T-262/07) (1)
   
   (Agriculture - Common organisation of the markets - Measures to be adopted as a result of the accession of new Member States - 2003 Act of Accession - Determination of surplus stocks of agricultural products other than sugar, and the financial consequences of their elimination - Objective pursued by a provision of primary law - Decision 2007/361/EC)
   2012/C 138/20
   Language of the case: Lithuanian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Republic of Lithuania (represented by: D. Kriaučiūnas, E. Matulionytė and R. Krasuckaitė, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: H. Tserepa-Lacombe and A. Steiblytė, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicant: Republic of Poland (represented: initially by T. Nowakowski, subsequently by M. Dowgielewicz and lastly by M. Szpunar, B. Majczyna and D. Krawczyk, acting as Agents); and Slovak Republic (represented: initially by J. Čorba, and subsequently by B. Ricziová, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2007/361/EC of 4 May 2007 on the determination of surplus stocks of agricultural products other than sugar and the financial consequences of their elimination in relation to the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (OJ 2007 L 138, p. 14)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2007/361/EC of 4 May 2007 on the determination of surplus stocks of agricultural products other than sugar and the financial consequences of their elimination in relation to the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Republic of Lithuania;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Poland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 211, 8.9.2007.