Order of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 13 October 2005 − Fintecna v Commission

(Case T-249/02)

European Social Fund – Reduction of financial assistance – Action for annulment – Actionable measure – Preparatory measure – Inadmissibility

Actions for annulment – Actionable measures – Meaning – Measures producing binding legal effects – Letter of the Commission relating to the rectification of the final balances of operational programmes for which Community financial assistance was granted – Excluded (Art. 230 EC; Council Regulation No 4253/88, Art. 24(1)) (see paras 40-41, 43)

Re:

ACTION for the annulment of the Commission’s letter of 31 March 2000 relating to various financial measures of the European Social Fund (ESF) granted to a number of operational programmes under the Community scheme of support for the achievement of Objectives 1, 3 and 4 in Italy (Centre-North and Mezzogiorno)

Operative part

The Court:

1. Dismisses the application as inadmissible;

2. Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and pay those of the Commission.