CELEX: C2000/047/01
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 October 1999 in Case C-253/97: Italian Republic v Commission of the European Communities (EAGGF — Clearance of accounts — 1993)

19.2.2000               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                                C 47/1
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                                                     COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                           in respect of the expenditure of the Guarantee Section of the
                                                                                 European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund for 1993,
                                                                                 in so far as it made an adjustment of ITL 778 000 000 for late
                          (Fifth Chamber)                                        payment for intervention purchases of beef and veal;
                                                                             2. Dismisses the remainder of the application;
                       of 28 October 1999
                                                                             3. Orders the Italian Republic to pay four-fifths of the costs and the
                                                                                 Commission of the European Communities to pay one-fifth.
in Case C-253/97: Italian Republic v Commission of the
                   European Communities (1)
                                                                             (1) OJ C 295 of 27.9.1997.
         (EAGGF — Clearance of accounts — 1993)
                           (2000/C 47/01)
                                                                                               JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                    (Language of the case: Italian)
                                                                                                       (Sixth Chamber)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published                              of 11 November 1999
                   in the European Court Reports)
                                                                             in Case C-184/97: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                                         ties v Federal Republic of Germany(1)
In Case C-253/97: Italian Republic (Agent: Professor U. Leanza,
assisted by G. De Bellis) v Commission of the European                       (Failure to fulfil obligations — Council Directive
Communities (Agent: P. Ziotti, assisted by A. Dal Ferro) —                     76/464/EEC — Aquatic pollution — Failure to transpose)
application for partial annulment of Commission Decision
97/333/EC of 23 April 1997 on the clearance of the accounts
                                                                                                        (2000/C 47/02)
presented by the Member States in respect of the expenditure
of the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guid-
ance and Guarantee Fund for 1993 (OJ 1997 L 139, p. 30), in                                      (Language of the case: German)
so far as it concerns the Italian Republic — the Court (Fifth
Chamber), composed of: J.C. Moitinho de Almeida, President
of the Sixth Chamber, acting as President of the Fifth Chamber,              (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
L. Sevón, J.-P. Puissochet, P. Jann and M. Wathelet (Rappor-                                    in the European Court Reports)
teur), Judges; S. Alber, Advocate General; H. von Holstein,
Deputy Registrar, has given a judgment on 28 October 1999,                   In Case C-184/97: Commission of the European Communities
in which it:                                                                 (Agent: G. zur Hausen) v Federal Republic of Germany
                                                                             (Agents: E. Röder and C.-D. Quassowski) — application for a
1. Annuls Commission Decision 97/333/EC of 23 April 1997                     declaration that by not adopting, under Article 7 of Council
    on the clearance of the accounts presented by the Member States          Directive 76/464/EEC of 4 May 1976 on pollution caused by