CELEX: 62005TJ0404
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 19 November 2008. # Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities. # Cohesion Fund - Athens International Airport - Reduction of financial assistance - Principle of proportionality. # Case T-404/05.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 19 November 2008 – Greece v Commission
      (Case T-404/05)
      Cohesion Fund – Athens International Airport – Reduction of financial assistance – Principle of proportionality
      1.                     Acts of the institutions – Temporal application – Immediate application of the new rule (see para. 77)
      2.                     Community law – Principles – Proportionality – Reduction of financial assistance where essential obligations infringed – Lawfulness
            (see para. 89)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 3243 final of 1 September 2005 reducing the financial assistance
                  granted under the Cohesion Fund for Project No 95/09/65/040 (new Athens International Airport at Spata) by Commission Decision
                  C(96) 1356 final of 24 May 1996.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.