Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 27 March 2009 – Alves dos Santos v Commission

(Case T-184/08)

European Social Fund – Training programmes – Reduction in the financial assistance initially granted – Application – Formal requirements – Manifest inadmissibility

Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements – Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based – General reference to other documents not annexed to the application – Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 21; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see paras 18-27)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 4 March 2004, notified to Mr Rui Manuel Alves dos Santos on 3 March 2008, reducing the amount of financial assistance granted by the European Social Fund (ESF) in respect of a vocational training programme submitted by the Portuguese authorities in file No 89 0488 P1.

Operative part

1. The application is dismissed.

2. Mr Rui Manuel Alves dos Santos is ordered to pay the costs.