CELEX: 62007TJ0340
Language: en
Date: 2010-02-09 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 9 February 2010.#Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE v European Commission.#Arbitration clause – ‘eContent’ programme – Contract relating to a project designed to ensure maximum effectiveness of the programme and the widest possible participation of target groups – Non-performance of the contract – Termination of the contract.#Case T-340/07.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 9 February 2010 – Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission
      (Case T-340/07)
      Arbitration clause – ‘eContent’ programme – Contract relating to a project designed to ensure maximum effectiveness of the programme and the widest possible participation
         of target groups – Non-performance of the contract – Termination of the contract
      
      1.                     Procedure – Referral to the General Court under an arbitration clause – Jurisdiction of the Court defined exclusively by Article
            238 EC and the arbitration clause (Art. 238 EC) (see paras 76-77)
      2.                     Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements – Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application
            is based – Pleas in law not set out in the application (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see paras
            120-123)
      3.                     Non-contractual liability – Conditions – Unlawfulness – Violation of the principles of good administration and transparency
            – Raised in the context of purely contractual relations – Inadmissible save where contractual terms or the law applicable
            to the contract infringed (see para. 124)
      4.                     Officials – Rights and obligations – Duty of independence and integrity – Risk of conflict of interests where there are professional
            relations between an official having to rule on a case and a third party involved in it – None (Staff Regulations, Art. 11
            a) (see paras 130-134)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought under Articles 235 EC, 238 EC and 288 EC for an order that the Commission make good damage suffered as a result
                  of its failure to comply with contractual obligations in the context of the performance of the EDC-53007 EEBO/27873 contract
                  relating to the project entitled ‘e-Content Exposure and Business Opportunities’.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Evropaïki Dynamiki – Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE to pay the costs.