Judgment of the General Court of 10 July 2014 — Greece v Commission

(Case T-376/12) ¹

(EAGGF — ‘Guarantee’ section — EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Dried grapes — Wine — Expenditure incurred by Greece — One-off financial correction — Method of calculating — Nature of the procedure for clearance of accounts — Link with expenditure financed by the European Union)

Language of the case: Greek

Parties

Applicant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: I. Chalkias, E. Leftheriotou and S. Papaïoannou, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou and H. Tserepa-Lacombe, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2012/336/EU of 22 June 2011 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2012 L 165, p. 83), in so far as that decision concerns the dried grapes sector, in respect of financial years 2007, 2008 and 2009, and the wine sector of the Hellenic Republic.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Annuls Commission Implementing Decision 2012/336/EU of 22 June 2011 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in so far as it imposes on the Hellenic Republic a one-off financial correction for the wine sector;

Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

Orders each party to bear its own costs.

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¹ OJ C 331, 27.10.2012.