CELEX: 62017TA0335
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-335/17: Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2019 — Help — Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe v Commission (Arbitration clause — Food security programme for very food insecure farming households in Zimbabwe (ECHO/ZWE/BUD/2009/02002) — Reclassification of the action — Audit reports — Audit report of the Court of Auditors — OLAF Report — Reimbursement of the sums paid — Proportionality — Legitimate expectations)

23.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 432/37
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2019 — Help — Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe v Commission
      (Case T-335/17) (1)
      
      (Arbitration clause - Food security programme for very food insecure farming households in Zimbabwe (ECHO/ZWE/BUD/2009/02002) - Reclassification of the action - Audit reports - Audit report of the Court of Auditors - OLAF Report - Reimbursement of the sums paid - Proportionality - Legitimate expectations)
      (2019/C 432/41)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Help — Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe (Bonn, Germany) (represented initially by V. Jungkind and P. Cramer, and subsequently by V. Jungkind and F. Geber, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by A. Aresu, K. Blanck and A. Katsimerou, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      First, application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission decision Ares(2017)1515573 of 21 March 2017 by which a partial amount of the funding for the assistance project ECHO/ZWE/BUD/2009/02002 was to be recovered, as well as the payment request based thereupon and, second, application under Article 272 TFEU seeking an order that the Commission reimburse the sum of EUR 643 627,72 paid by the applicant to the Commission, in accordance with the decision of 21 March 2017 and the payment requests of 7 April and 5 September 2017.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Help — Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 239, 24.7.2017.