CELEX: 62013TA0346
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-346/13: Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2015 — Greece v Commission (EAGGF — ‘Guarantee’ Section — EAGGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Rural development measures — Agri-environment — Adequate checks — Lump-sum financial corrections)

19.10.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 346/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2015 — Greece v Commission
   (Case T-346/13) (1)
   
   ((EAGGF - ‘Guarantee’ Section - EAGGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Rural development measures - Agri-environment - Adequate checks - Lump-sum financial corrections))
   (2015/C 346/25)
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Hellenic Republic (represented initially by: I.-K. Chalkias, X. Basakou and A.-E. Vasilopoulou, and subsequently by: A.-E. Vasilopoulou, G. Kanellopoulos and O. Tsirkinidou, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Marcoulli and D. Triantafyllou, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2013/214/EU of 2 May 2013 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2013 L 123, p. 11).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Implementing Decision 2013/214/EU of 2 May 2013 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD, in so far as it imposes a financial correction of 2 % on the Hellenic Republic) in respect of the ‘Organic farming’ and ‘Organic livestock’ agri-environment sub-measures;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 245, 24.8.2013.