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Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 5 March 2009.
Commission of the European Communities v Provincia di Imperia.
Appeal - Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure - Conditions governing the admissibility of an action for annulment - Interest in bringing proceedings - Call for proposals regarding the financing of innovative actions under the European Social Fund - Decision to reject - Benefit for the applicant arising from a possible annulment of the contested act.
Case C-183/08 P.

European Court Reports 2009 I-00027*

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2009:136





Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 5 March 2009 – Commission v Provincia di Imperia

(Case C‑183/08 P)

Appeal – Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure – Conditions governing the admissibility of an action for annulment – Interest in bringing proceedings – Call for proposals regarding the financing of innovative actions under the European Social Fund – Decision to reject – Benefit for the applicant arising from a possible annulment of the contested act

Actions for annulment – Interest in bringing proceedings – Commission decision refusing European Social Fund support to an innovative measure under Article 6 of Regulation No 1784/1999 – Not possible to comply with the judgment annulling the measure – No effect (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1784/1999, Art. 6) (see paras 19, 26, 30)

Re:

Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 14 February 2008 in Case T-351/05 Provincia di Imperia v Commission , by which that Court declared admissible (but unfounded) the action brought by the appellant for the annulment of the Commission’s decision of 30 June 2005 to refuse to grant it a subsidy in the context of a call for proposals concerning innovative measures under the European Social Fund – Infringement of the conditions governing the admissibility of an action for annulment – Meaning of an ‘interest in bringing proceedings’ – No benefit for the applicant arising from a possible annulment of the contested act.

Operative part:

1.

The appeal is dismissed as manifestly unfounded.

2.

The Commission of the European Communities shall bear its own costs.

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