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Document 62021TA0516

Case T-516/21: Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2023 — Italy v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Italy — Voluntary coupled support in the beef and milk sectors — Treatment of late notifications — Adjustments — Conditions under which permissible — Second subparagraph of Article 53(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 — Administrative penalties — Article 31 of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 640/2014 — Proportionality — Equal treatment — System for the identification and registration of bovine animals — Time limit for notification to the competent authority — Article 2 and Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000)

OJ C, C/2023/766, 20.11.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/766/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/766/oj

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Series C


C/2023/766

20.11.2023

Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2023 — Italy v Commission

(Case T-516/21) (1)

(EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by Italy - Voluntary coupled support in the beef and milk sectors - Treatment of late notifications - Adjustments - Conditions under which permissible - Second subparagraph of Article 53(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 - Administrative penalties - Article 31 of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 640/2014 - Proportionality - Equal treatment - System for the identification and registration of bovine animals - Time limit for notification to the competent authority - Article 2 and Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000)

(C/2023/766)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, Agent, and C. Gerardis and E. Feola, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. Aquilina, A. Becker and F. Moro, Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the Italian Republic seeks the annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/988 of 16 June 2021 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 2021 L 218, p. 9), in so far as the decision relates to certain expenditure incurred by it.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders the Italian Republic to bear its own costs as well as those incurred by the European Commission.


(1)   OJ C 412, 11.10.2021.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/766/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)


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