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Document 62016TA0287
Case T-287/16: Judgment of the General Court of 20 July 2017 — Belgium v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Belgium — Export refunds — No recovery resulting from negligence attributable to a body of a Member State — Non-exhaustion of all possible remedies — Proportionality)
Case T-287/16: Judgment of the General Court of 20 July 2017 — Belgium v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Belgium — Export refunds — No recovery resulting from negligence attributable to a body of a Member State — Non-exhaustion of all possible remedies — Proportionality)
Case T-287/16: Judgment of the General Court of 20 July 2017 — Belgium v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Belgium — Export refunds — No recovery resulting from negligence attributable to a body of a Member State — Non-exhaustion of all possible remedies — Proportionality)
IO C 293, 4.9.2017, p. 30–30
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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4.9.2017 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 293/30 |
Judgment of the General Court of 20 July 2017 — Belgium v Commission
(Case T-287/16) (1)
((EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by Belgium - Export refunds - No recovery resulting from negligence attributable to a body of a Member State - Non-exhaustion of all possible remedies - Proportionality))
(2017/C 293/34)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: initially J.-C. Halleux and M. Jacobs, then M. Jacobs, L. Van den Broeck and J. Van Holm, acting as Agents, and by É. Grégoire and J. Mariani, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouquet and P. Ondrůšek, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/417 of 17 March 2016 excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2016 L 75, p. 16), in so far as it excludes from that financing in relation to the Kingdom of Belgium the amount of EUR 9 601 619,00.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
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1) |
Dismisses the action; |
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2) |
Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs. |