Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 December 2006 - Germany v Commission
(Joined Cases T-314/04 and T-414/04) 1 (European Regional Development Fund - Reduction of financial assistance - Action for annulment - Act against which proceedings can be brought - Preparatory act - Inadmissibility)
Language of the case: German
Parties
Applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: C.-D. Quassowski, Agent, and C. von Donat, lawyer)
Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: G. Wilms and L. Flynn, Agents)
Re:
Actions for annulment of the decisions contained in two letters of the Directorate-General for Regional Policy of the Commission of 17 May and 9 August 2004 sent to the applicant concerning reduction of the assistance from the European Regional Development Fund granted for the Objective 2 Programme 1997-1999 North Rhine-Westphalia and the Operational Programme Resider II North Rhine-Westphalia 1994-1999, and the refusal in consequence to pay the applicant the balances of EUR 5 488 569.24 and EUR 2 268 988.33 respectively.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the actions as inadmissible;
Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and half of those incurred by the applicant. The applicant is to bear half of its own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 262, 23.10.2004.