Provisional text

Order of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 19 April 2016 —
Portugal v Commission

(Case T‑551/15)

Action for annulment — EAGF and EAFRD — Period within which proceedings must be commenced — Point from which time starts to run — Delay — Inadmissibility

1.                     Actions for annulment — Time-limits — Mandatory — Point from which time starts to run — Notification — Commission decision excluding certain expenses incurred by Member States from EU financing under EAGGF, EAGF and EAFRD — Subsequent publication of the decision in the Official Journal — No effect (Arts 263, sixth para., TFEU and 297(2), third subpara., TFEU) (see paras 20-23, 25-28, 31-33, 36-38, 40)

2.                     Actions for annulment — Time-limits — Point from which time starts to run — Notification — Concept (Arts 263, sixth para., TFEU and 297(2) third subpara., TFEU) (see para. 24)

3.                     Acts of the institutions — No general obligation to inform the addressees of measures of the judicial remedies available and of the time-limits (Arts 263, fourth and sixth paras, TFEU and 275, second para., TFEU) (see para. 39)

Re:

ACTION for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1119 of 22 June 2015 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 2015 L 182, p. 39) in so far as that decision excludes certain expenditure incurred by the Portuguese Republic.

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. The Portuguese Republic is ordered to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.