CELEX: 62017TA0474
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-474/17: Judgment of the General Court of 26 June 2019 — Portugal v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Portugal — Late payments — Overshooting of ceilings — Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 885/2006 — Double financial correction — Proportionality — Payment deadlines)

2.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 295/21
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 26 June 2019 — Portugal v Commission
      (Case T-474/17) (1)
      
      (EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by Portugal - Late payments - Overshooting of ceilings - Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 885/2006 - Double financial correction - Proportionality - Payment deadlines)
      (2019/C 295/26)
      Language of the case: Portuguese
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Portuguese Republic (represented by L. Inez Fernandes, M, Figueiredo, J. Saraiva de Almeida and P. Estêvão, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by B. Rechena and A. Sauka, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment 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 from European Union financing, for the 2011 financial year, expenditure declared by the Portuguese Republic for late payments and the overshooting of ceilings.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 357, 23.10.2017.