Keywords
Subject of the case
Operative part

Keywords

Actions for annulment

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Interest in bringing proceedings

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Commission decision refusing European Social Fund support to an innovative measure under Article 6 of Regulation No 1784/1999

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Not possible to comply with the judgment annulling the measure

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No effect (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1784/1999, Art. 6) (see paras 19, 26, 30

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Subject of the case

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

Operative part:

1. The appeal is dismissed as manifestly unfounded.

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