Action brought on 30 December 2013 – Meta Group v European Commission

(Case T-696/13)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Meta Group Srl (Rome, Italy) (represented by: A. Bartolini, V. Colcelli and A. Formica, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

Declare that the reductions made by the European Commission on the subsidies granted to META S.r.l are unlawful;

And, consequently, order the Commission to pay the applicant the additional amount of EUR 129 153.11, together with default interest;

Order the administration to compensate the applicant for the consequential loss suffered by it.

Pleas in law and main arguments

This action is brought against the decisions of the Commission which reduced the grant initially provided for the projects ‘Bcreative’, ‘Take-It-Up’ and ‘Ecolink +’, which grant agreements were concluded between the applicant and the defendant in the context of the ‘Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) (2007 – 2013)’.

Several decisions concerning those projects were also contested in Cases T - 471/12, T - 34/13 and T - 35/13, Meta Group v Commission.

The pleas in law and main arguments set out are identical to those raised in those cases.