CELEX: 62013CA0410
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-410/13: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 3 September 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vilniaus apygardos administracinis teismas — Lithuania) — ‘Baltlanta’ UAB v Lietuvos valstybė (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Structural funds — Economic, social and territorial cohesion — Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 — Article 38 — Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999 — Article 19 — Fisheries — Court proceedings at national level — Obligation on the part of the Member State to take the measures necessary to ensure the successful implementation of the decision relating to the grant of funds following court proceedings)

10.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 395/19
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 3 September 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vilniaus apygardos administracinis teismas — Lithuania) — ‘Baltlanta’ UAB v Lietuvos valstybė
      (Case C-410/13) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Structural funds - Economic, social and territorial cohesion - Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 - Article 38 - Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999 - Article 19 - Fisheries - Court proceedings at national level - Obligation on the part of the Member State to take the measures necessary to ensure the successful implementation of the decision relating to the grant of funds following court proceedings))
      (2014/C 395/23)
      Language of the case: Lithuanian
      
         Referring court
      
      Vilniaus apygardos administracinis teismas
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant:‘Baltlanta’ UAB
      
         Defendant: Lietuvos valstybė
      
         Intervening parties: Nacionalinė mokėjimo agentūra prie Žemės ūkio ministerijos, Lietuvos Respublikos žemės ūkio ministerija, Lietuvos Respublikos finansų ministerija
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 38(1)(e) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds, Article 19 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999 of 17 December 1999 laying down the detailed rules and arrangements regarding Community structural assistance in the fisheries sector, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2369/2002 of 20 December 2002, and Sections 6 and 7 of the Guidelines on the closure of assistance (2000 to 2006) from the Structural Funds, adopted by Commission Decision COM(2006)3424 final of 1 August 2006, must be interpreted as neither obliging the State authorities concerned to inform the European Commission of the existence of court proceedings relating to an administrative decision on the eligibility of an application for financial assistance such as that at issue in the main proceedings, nor to take the measures necessary so that funds that have been provided are reserved for the disputed assistance until the question of the award of the assistance has been finally decided.
      
         (1)  OJ C 284, 28.9.2013.