Case T-88/17: Judgment of the General Court of 5 July 2018 — Spain v Commission (EAFRD — Last execution year of 2007-2013 programming period — Clearance of accounts of Member States’ paying agencies — Decision declaring a certain amount non-reusable in the Rural development programme of the Autonomous Community of Estremadura — Calculation method — Article 69(6b) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 — Legitimate expectations)

Judgment of the General Court of 5 July 2018 — Spain v Commission

(Case T-88/17) ( 1 )

‛(EAFRD — Last execution year of 2007-2013 programming period — Clearance of accounts of Member States’ paying agencies — Decision declaring a certain amount non-reusable in the Rural development programme of the Autonomous Community of Estremadura — Calculation method — Article 69(6b) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 — Legitimate expectations)’

Parties

Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: M.A. Sampol Pucurull and M.J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. Aquilina and M. Morales Puerta, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment in part of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/2113 of 30 November 2016 on the clearance of accounts of the paying agencies of Member States concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in the last execution year of EAFRD 2007-2013 programming period (16 October 2014-31 December 2015) (OJ 2016 L 327, p. 79), by which the Commission classified the sum of EUR 5364682,52 as a ‘non-reusable amount’ in the clearance of the accounts of the Estremadura paying agency.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

( 1 ) OJ C 95, 27.3.2017.