Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 30 September 2009 - Portugal v Commission
(EAGGF - Guarantee Section - Expenditure excluded from Community financing - Flax textile - Effectiveness of checks)
Language of the case: Portuguese
Parties
Applicant: Portuguese Republic (represented by: L. Inez Fernandes, acting as Agent, assisted by C. Botelho Moniz and E. Maia Cadete, lawyers)
Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Afonso, L. Parpala and F. Jimeno Fernández, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2006/334/EC of 28 April 2006 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2006 L 124, p. 21).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls Commission Decision 2006/334/EC of 28 April 2006 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) in so far as it excludes all of the expenditure incurred by the Portuguese Republic in the flax sector.
Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay the costs.
____________1 - OJ C 212, 2.9.2006.