EAGGF Expenditure excluded from Community financing ‘Guarantee’ Section Aid for the processing of tomatoes and production of olive oil
Sumário
Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 13 November 2008.
Italian Republic v Commission of the European Communities.
EAGGF - ‘Guarantee’ Section - Expenditure excluded from Community financing - Aid for the processing of tomatoes and production of olive oil.
Case T-224/04.
Texto da decisão
Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 13 November 2008 – Italy v Commission
(Case T-224/04)
EAGGF – ‘Guarantee’ Section – Expenditure excluded from Community financing – Aid for the processing of tomatoes and production of olive oil
1. Agriculture – EAGGF – Clearance of accounts – Procedure (see paras 38-39)
2. Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements – Identification of the subject-matter of the dispute – Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based (Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see para. 41)
3. Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – EAGGF financing – Grant of aid and premiums (Art. 10 EC; Council Regulations Nos 729/70, Art. 8(1), and No 1258/1999, Art 1; Commission Regulation No 504/97, Art. 15(1)) (see paras 51-55)
4. Agriculture – EAGGF – Clearance of accounts – Disallowance of expenditure arising from irregularities in the application of the Community rules (see paras 56-58, 65, 98)
5. Acts of the institutions – Regulations – Regulation prescribing specific control measures (see para. 93)
Re:
| ACTION for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2003/536/EC of 22 July 2003 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the ‘Guarantee’ Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2003 L 184, p. 42) to the extent that it excludes certain expenditure by the Italian Republic in the financial years 1999 to 2002. |
Operative part
The Court:
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Dismisses the action; |
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Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs. |