Order of the General Court of 6 January 2015 — St’art and Others v Commission
(Case T-36/14) 1
(Action for annulment — ‘European Creative Industries Alliance’ Programme — ‘C-I Factor’ project aimed at introducing new instruments in order to promote funding for cultural and creative industries — Decision to end the project — Measure forming part of a purely contractual framework from which it is not separable — Inadmissibility)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicants: St’art — Fonds d’investissement dans les entreprises culturelles (Mons, Belgium); Stichting Cultuur — Ondernemen (Amsterdam, Netherlands); and Angel Capital Innovations Ltd (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: L. Dehin and C. Brüls, avocats)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: S. Delaude, J. Estrada de Solà and S. Lejeune, acting as Agents)
Re:
Action for annulation of, first, the Commission’s ‘implicit decision of unknown date’ aimed at ending the project ‘C-I Factor SI2.609157-2/G/ENT/CIP/11/C/N03C011’ and, therefore, ending the grant awarded to the consortium of which the applicants form part and, secondly, the ‘explicit decision confirming it’ adopted on 29 November 2013.
Operative part of the order
The action is dismissed.
St’art — Fonds d’investissement dans les entreprises culturelles, Stichting Cultuur — Ondernemen and Angel Capital Innovations Ltd are ordered to bear their own costs as well as those incurred by the European Commission.
________________________1 OJ C 135, 5.5.2014.