CELEX: C2006/326/162
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-339/06: Action brought on 30 November 2006 — Greece v Commission

30.12.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 326/80
            
         Action brought on 30 November 2006 — Greece v Commission
   (Case T-339/06)
   (2006/C 326/162)
   Language of the case: Greek
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: I. Khalkias and S. Papaïoannou)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul or alter the contested Commission decision in so far as it concerns the financial allocation for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards in Greece, in order that the correct statistical information which the applicant transmitted to the Commission on 22 September 2006 be taken into account and the sums be allocated to Greece.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The Hellenic Republic challenges Commission Decision C(2006) 4348 final of 4 October 2006 (OJ 2006 L 275, p. 62) fixing, for the 2006 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive financial allocations to Member States for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999. The Hellenic Republic seeks the annulment or alteration of the decision in so far as the decision relates to Greece because, in its submission, the Commission:
   
               (a)
            
            
               infringed the obligation of cooperation which governs relations between it and the Member States by failing to take account of the information which was transmitted to it by the applicant;
            
         
               (b)
            
            
               infringed the principle of good faith and of proper administration, not acknowledging a clear computer error of which it was notified in good and due time by means of the subsequent correction;
            
         
               (c)
            
            
               infringed the principle of equity and of proportionality, given that the loss of funds for Greece (EUR 1 129 015) is out of proportion with the allegedly belated correction of the computing error in the information originally forwarded; and finally
            
         
               (d)
            
            
               infringed the principle that a beneficial result should be achieved, given that the restructuring and conversion of vineyards (Articles 11, 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (1) and Articles 16 and 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 (2)) constitute an important measure for the qualitative upgrading of Community vineyards and the unjustified reduction of Greece's financial allocation prejudices that Community objective.
            
         
      (1)  OJ 1999 L 179, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ 2000 L 143, p. 1.