CELEX: C2006/331/78
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-314/04 and T-414/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 December 2006 — Germany v Commission (European Regional Development Fund — Reduction of financial assistance — Action for annulment — Act against which proceedings can be brought — Preparatory act — Inadmissibility)

30.12.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/35
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 December 2006 — Germany v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-314/04 and T-414/04) (1)
   
   (European Regional Development Fund - Reduction of financial assistance - Action for annulment - Act against which proceedings can be brought - Preparatory act - Inadmissibility)
   (2006/C 331/78)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: C.-D. Quassowski, Agent, and C. von Donat, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: G. Wilms and L. Flynn, Agents)
   Re:
   Actions for annulment of the decisions contained in two letters of the Directorate-General for Regional Policy of the Commission of 17 May and 9 August 2004 sent to the applicant concerning reduction of the assistance from the European Regional Development Fund granted for the Objective 2 Programme 1997-1999 North Rhine-Westphalia and the Operational Programme Resider II North Rhine-Westphalia 1994-1999, and the refusal in consequence to pay the applicant the balances of EUR 5 488 569,24 and EUR 2 268 988,33 respectively.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions as inadmissible;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and half of those incurred by the applicant. The applicant is to bear half of its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 262, 23.10.2004.