CELEX: 62016TA0627
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-627/16: Judgment of the General Court of 13 September 2018 — Czech Republic v Commission (EAGF — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by the Czech Republic — Decoupled direct aid — Remote-sensing checks — Wine-growing sector — Cross-compliance — Reoccurrence of non-compliance)

29.10.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 392/21
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 September 2018 — Czech Republic v Commission
      (Case T-627/16) (1)
      
      ((EAGF - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by the Czech Republic - Decoupled direct aid - Remote-sensing checks - Wine-growing sector - Cross-compliance - Reoccurrence of non-compliance))
      (2018/C 392/25)
      Language of the case: Czech
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, J. Pavliš and J. Vláčil, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou, Z. Malůšková and K. Walkerová, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: F. Bergius, A. Falk, C. Meyer-Seitz and H. Shev, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1059 of 20 June 2016 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 2016 L 173, p. 59), in so far as it excludes the payments made by the Czech Republic under the EAGF in the amount of EUR 30 206 401,58.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1059 of 20 June 2016 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), in so far as it excludes the payments made by the Czech Republic under the EAGF in the amount of EUR 6 356 909,30 in respect of cross-compliance checks for the financial year 2011;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission, the Czech Republic and the Kingdom of Sweden to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 392, 24.10.2016.