Notice for the OJ

 

Action brought on 29 April 2002 by the public limited company Idiotiko Institouto Epangelmatikis Katartisis N. Avgerinopoulou ( Anagnorismenes Technikes Idiotikes Epangelmatikes Scholes, the Panellinia Enosi Idiotikon Institouton Epangelmatikis Katartisis and the Panellinia Enosi Idiotikis Technikis Epangelmatikis Ekpaidefsis kai Katartisis against the Commission of the European Communities

    (Case T-139/02)

    Language of the Case: Greek

An action against the Commission of the European Communities was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 29 April 2002 by Idiotiko Institouto Epangelmatikis Katartisis N. Avgerinopoulou ( Anagnorismenes Technikes Idiotikes Epangelmatikes Scholes, a public limited company whose seat is in Athens, the Panellinia Enosi Idiotikon Institouton Epangelmatikis Katartisis, whose seat is in Athens, and the Panellinia Enosi Idiotikis Technikis Epangelmatikis Ekpaidefsis kai Katartisis, whose seat is in Athens, represented by Th. Antoniou and Kh. Tsiliotis, of the Athens Bar.

The applicants claim that the Court should:

(allow the application;

(annul the contested decision of 27 February 2002 adopted by the Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs of the Commission with the objective of invalidating the unlawful refusal of the Commission ( for the reasons set out in the grounds of the application ( to remove the unlawful distinction between private and public vocational training bodies so far as concerns the financing exclusively of the latter by the third Community support framework and, in particular, by the operational programme "Education and Initial Vocational Training II".

Pleas in law and main arguments

(Infringement of provisions of Council Regulation No 1260/1999.

(Infringement of provisions of primary law.

(Infringement of the principle of equality laid down by Article 12 (ex Article 6) of the EC Treaty.

(Infringement of the principle of subsididarity.

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