Principle of proportionality Reduction of financial assistance Cohesion Fund Athens International Airport
Sumário
Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 19 November 2008.
Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities.
Cohesion Fund - Athens International Airport - Reduction of financial assistance - Principle of proportionality.
Case T-404/05.
Texto da decisão
Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 19 November 2008 – Greece v Commission
(Case T-404/05)
Cohesion Fund – Athens International Airport – Reduction of financial assistance – Principle of proportionality
1. Acts of the institutions – Temporal application – Immediate application of the new rule (see para. 77)
2. Community law – Principles – Proportionality – Reduction of financial assistance where essential obligations infringed – Lawfulness (see para. 89)
Re:
| APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 3243 final of 1 September 2005 reducing the financial assistance granted under the Cohesion Fund for Project No 95/09/65/040 (new Athens International Airport at Spata) by Commission Decision C(96) 1356 final of 24 May 1996. |
Operative part
The Court:
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1. |
Dismisses the action; |
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2. |
Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs. |