6.8.2005   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 193/3


JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Third Chamber)

of 9 June 2005

in Case C-287/02: Kingdom of Spain v Commission of the European Communities (1)

(EAGGF - Clearance of accounts - 2001 financial year - Detailed implementing rules)

(2005/C 193/04)

Language of the case: Spanish

In Case C-287/02: Kingdom of Spain (Agent: L. Fraguas Gadea) v Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Niejahr and S. Pardo Quintillán) — action for annulment under Article 230 EC, brought on 9 August 2002 — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, A. Borg Barthet, J.-P. Puissochet, S. von Bahr and J. Malenovský (Rapporteur), Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 9 June 2005, in which it:

1.

Annuls Commission Decision 2002/461/EC of 12 June 2002 on the clearance of the accounts of Member States' expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2001 financial year in so far as Annex I thereto includes in the amount recoverable from the Kingdom of Spain a financial correction of the accounts of the Castilla-La Mancha paying agency corresponding to the amount of the compensatory allowances;

2.

Dismisses the remainder of the action;

3.

Orders the Kingdom of Spain and the Commission of the European Communities to bear their own costs.


(1)  OJ C 233, 28.9.2002.