CELEX: 62017TA0480
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-480/17: Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2019 — Greece v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Greece — One-off and flat-rate financial corrections — Cross compliance — Monitoring of statutory management requirements — Risk analysis — Assessment of the financial loss — Obligation to state reasons — Proportionality)

20.5.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 172/29
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2019 — Greece v Commission
      (Case T-480/17) (1)
      
      (EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by Greece - One-off and flat-rate financial corrections - Cross compliance - Monitoring of statutory management requirements - Risk analysis - Assessment of the financial loss - Obligation to state reasons - Proportionality)
      (2019/C 172/40)
      Language of the case: Greek
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: G. Kanellopoulos and Α. Vassilopoulou, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou and A. Sauka, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for 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 imposes on the Hellenic Republic, following the investigation under reference XC/2014/002/GR, one-off and flat-rate financial corrections amounting in total to EUR 1182 054.17 because of weaknesses in the application of cross compliance (EAGF and EAFRD).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 357, 23.10.2017.