Judgment of the General Court of 19 April 2013 – Aecops v Commission
(Case T-53/11) 1
(ESF – Training operations – Reduction in financial assistance initially granted – Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 – Time-bar – Legal certainty – Rights of the defence – Reasonable period – Duty to state reasons)
Language of the case: Portuguese
Parties
Applicant: Associação de Empresas de Construção e Obras Públicas e Serviços (Aecops) (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented initially by: J. da Cruz Vilaça and L. Pinto Monteiro and subsequently by: L. Pinto Monteiro, P. Farinha Alves and N. Morais Sarmento, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Guerra e Andrade and D. Recchia, acting as Agents)
Re:
Annulment of the Commission’s decision of 27 October 2010 setting the final amount of the expenditure eligible for assistance from the European Social Fund (ESF), granted to the applicant for training operations by Commission Decision C(89) 570 of 22 March 1989 for the funding of training operations (file 89 0771 P1)
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Associação de Empresas de Construção e Obras Públicas e Serviços (Aecops) to pay the costs.
________________________1 OJ C 139, 7.5.2011.