CELEX: 62017TA0602
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-602/17: Judgment of the General Court of 3 July 2019 — Spain v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure made by Spain — Key checks — Criteria for recognition of producers’ bodies — Approval of operational programmes — Transfer of investments within the same operation programme — Legitimate expectations)

2.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 295/23
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 3 July 2019 — Spain v Commission
      (Case T-602/17) (1)
      
      (EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure made by Spain - Key checks - Criteria for recognition of producers’ bodies - Approval of operational programmes - Transfer of investments within the same operation programme - Legitimate expectations)
      (2019/C 295/29)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by: M. Sampol Pucurull and A. Gavela Llopis, then by: A. Gavela Llopis and finally by: S. Jiménez García, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, W. Farrell and M. Morales Puerta, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment in part of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1144 of 26 June 2017 excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2017 L 165, p. 37), in so far as it excludes, as regards the Kingdom of Spain, the sum of EUR 7 097 397,27 from that financing.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 357, 23.10.2017.