CELEX: C2005/019/66
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-443/04: Action brought on 5 November 2004 by the Italian Republic against the Commission of the European Communities

22.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/32
            
         Action brought on 5 November 2004 by the Italian Republic against the Commission of the European Communities
   (Case T-443/04)
   (2005/C 19/66)
   Language of the case: Italian
   An action against the Commission of the European Communities was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 5 November 2004 by the Italian Republic, represented by Antonio Cingolo, Avvocato dello Stato.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the European Commission's memoranda of 27 August 2004 (DOCUP Abruzzo), 3 September 2004 (DOCUP Lazio), 15 September 2004 (POR Molise), 17 September 2004 (PON Sviluppo Imprenditoriale Locale (local business development)), 17 September 2004 (DOCUP Veneto), 20 September 2004 (POR Calabria) and 22 September 2004 (DOCUP Liguria), all of which make the implementation of the procedures for the payment of advances under the aid schemes subject to obligations which are not laid down in the relevant rules, with the effect of unlawfully restricting the admissibility of the operating costs of the Structural Funds to which they relate;
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments:
   The pleas in law and main arguments are those put forward in Case T-345/04 Italian Republic v Commission (1).
   
      (1)  OJ C 262 of 23.10.2004, p. 55.