Keywords
Summary

Keywords

Economic and social cohesion — Structural activities — Community funding — Breach of the conditions laid down — Revocation of financial assistance and requirement of partial repayment — Powers of the Member State which granted the assistance — (Council Regulation No 4253/88, Art. 23(1), first subpara.)

Summary

The first subparagraph of Article 23(1) of Regulation No 4253/88 laying down provisions for implementing Regulation No 2052/88 as regards coordination of the activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the European Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments, as amended by Regulation No 2082/93, is to be interpreted as meaning that, in the context of an action programme financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), where an examination reveals a breach of the conditions laid down for the implementation of a programme ' s operations, a Member State which has granted financial assistance from the EAGGF may, in order to prevent and to take action against irregularities, revoke that assistance and require partial repayment thereof from the final recipients.

see para. 48, operative part