Flat Time EAGGF Expenditure excluded from Community financing Force majeure limit of 24 months Public storage of rice Processed fruit and vegetable products Assistance to the needy Restructuring programme in the fruit and vegetables sector rate corrections
Sumário
Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 20 June 2006.
Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities.
EAGGF - Expenditure excluded from Community financing - Public storage of rice - Force majeure - Processed fruit and vegetable products - Assistance to the needy - Restructuring programme in the fruit and vegetables sector - Flat-rate corrections - Time-limit of 24 months.
Case T-251/04.
Texto da decisão
Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 20 June 2006 – Greece v Commission
(Case T-251/04)
EAGGF – Expenditure excluded from Community financing – Public storage of rice – Force majeure – Processed fruit and vegetable products – Assistance to the needy – Restructuring programme in the fruit and vegetables sector – Flat-rate corrections – Time-limit of 24 months
1. Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Rice – Public storage of rice (Commission Regulation No 708/98, Art. 6(1)) (see paras 46-54)
2. Agriculture – EAGGF – Clearance of accounts (Council Regulations Nos 729/70, as amended by Regulation No 2245/1999, Art. 5(2)(c), and 2201/96; Commission Regulations Nos 708/98 and 1663/95, Art. 8(1)) (see paras 74, 76-78, 96-101, 106-107, 136-137, 179-182)
3. Agriculture – EAGGF – Grant of aids and premiums (Commission Regulation No 3149/92, Art. 9) (see paras 138-142)
4. Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – Support to producers for the purpose of restructuring in the fruit and vegetable sector (Commission Regulation No 3816/92, Art. 2) (see paras 162-169)
Re:
| ACTION for the annulment of Commission Decision 2004/457/EC of 29 April 2004 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 2004 L 202, p. 35), in so far as it excludes certain expenditure by the Hellenic Republic in the sectors of fruit and vegetables and public storage. |
Operative part
The Court:
1. Dismisses the action;
2. Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.