Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 January 2010 – Greece v Commission

(Case C-43/09 P)

Appeal – Commission decision reducing the financial assistance initially granted by the Cohesion Fund for the project for the new Athens International Airport at Spata – Action for annulment – Principles of non-retroactivity, legal certainty and proportionality – Appeal manifestly inadmissible in part and manifestly unfounded in part

1.                     Community law – Interpretation – Acts of the institutions (Council Regulation No 1164/94; Commission Regulation No 1386/2002, Art. 1) (see paras 33, 35)

2.                     Acts of the institutions – Temporal application – Immediate application of the new rule to the future effects of a situation arising when the old rule was in force (see paras 47-54)

3.                     Appeals – Grounds – Mere repetition of the pleas and arguments put forward before the Court of First Instance – Error of law relied on not identified – Inadmissibility (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 112(1), first para., (c)) (see paras 61-63)

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Operative part