CELEX: C2005/330/03
Language: en
Date: 2005-12-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of  27 October 2005  in Case C-175/03: Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities (EAGGF — Decision 2003/102/EC — Expenditure excluded from Community financing — Aid for the preservation of olive groves in the minor islands of the Aegean Sea — Financial years 1999-2001)

24.12.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 330/2
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 27 October 2005
   in Case C-175/03: Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities (1)
   
   (EAGGF - Decision 2003/102/EC - Expenditure excluded from Community financing - Aid for the preservation of olive groves in the minor islands of the Aegean Sea - Financial years 1999-2001)
   (2005/C 330/03)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-175/03 Hellenic Republic (Agents: V. Kontolaimos and S. Charitaki) v Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. Condou-Durande, assisted by N. Korogiannakis, avocat) — action for annulment under Article 230 EC, brought on 10 April 2003 — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet (Rapporteur), S. von Bahr, J. Malenovský and U. Lõhmus, Judges; F. G. Jacobs, Advocate General; Lynn Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 27 October 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               Commission Decision 2003/102/EC of 14 February 2003 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) is annulled insofar as it imposed on the Hellenic Republic a flat-rate correction of 25 % for the financial years 1999-2001 (public storage sector) in the sum of Euro 9 926 005,21.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The Commission of the European Communities is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 171 of 19.07.2003