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2012-7 E.C.R. 1 (2012)

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ZCVRLA


    Case T-86/08

  Hellenic Republic
          V
European  Commission


  (EAGGF  -  Guarantee Section - Expenditure excluded from financing - Fruit and vegetables -
Rural development - Non-compliance with payment deadlines - Compliance with a judgment of the
        Court of Justice - Authority of res judicata - Time-limit of 24 months - Principle
                                     of proportionality)


                                  Summary  of the Judgment

1.  Agriculture -  EAGGF   -  Clearance of accounts -   Limitation of refusal of financing -
    Twenty-four month period - Annulment  of the refusal decision - Resumption of the procedure
    for the clearance of accounts - New financial correction concerning expenditure incurred during
    the 24 months preceding communication  to the Member State of the results of the checks -
    Lawfulness

    (Council Regulation No 729/70, Art. 5(2)(c), fifth para.)

2.  Court of Justice - Judgments - Interpretation of rules of law - Application to legal relationships
    arising and established before delivery of the decision

3.  Acts of the institutions - Statement of reasons - Obligation - Scope - Decision relating to the
    clearance of accounts in respect of expenditure financed by the EAGGF

    (Art. 253 EC)


4.  Agriculture -
    irregularities
    concerned -


- EAGGF   -  Clearance of accounts -  Disallowance of expenditure arising from
in   the application of Community  rules -  Challenge by  the Member   State
Burden  of proof - Allocation between the Commission and the Member State


5.  Agriculture - EAGGF  - Clearance of accounts - Evaluation of expenditure to be excluded from
    Community  financing - Communication after communication of the results of the checks and the
    discussions with the Member State

    (Commission Regulation No 1663/95, as amended by Regulation No 2245/1999, Art. 8(1))

1. European Union law does not preclude resumption of the procedure for the clearance of accounts
where there has been an annulment of the decision reached by the Commission at the end of that
procedure excluding from Community  financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States
under the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF). The fifth subparagraph of
Article 5(2)(c) of Regulation No 729/70 on the financing of the common agricultural policy cannot
prevent resumption of the procedure for the clearance of accounts, since, after the annulment of that


ECLJ:EU:T:2012:3451


Reports   of  Cases


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