Judgment of the General Court of of 17 May 2013 — Bulgaria v Commission

(Case T-335/11) (1)

(EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Single area payment - ‘Disadvantaged areas’ - Complementary national direct payments - Operation of the geographic information system and of the identification system for agricultural parcels - Article 31 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 - Proportionality - Legal certainty - obligation to state reasons)

2013/C 189/38

Language of the case: Bulgarian

Parties

Applicant: Republic of Bulgaria (represented by: E. Petranova and T. Ivanov, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Rossi, D. Dimov, G. Koleva and D. Stefanov, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2011/244/EU of 15 April 2001, on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2011 L 102, p. 33), as regards the Republic of Bulgaria

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 331, 12.11.2011.