21.11.2009   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 282/41


Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 30 September 2009 — Netherlands v Commission

(Case T-55/07) (1)

(EAGGF - Guarantee Section - Expenditure excluded from Community financing - Rural development support - Transitional measures - Concept of ‘multi-annual expenditure’ - Article 4(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 2603/1999)

2009/C 282/77

Language of the case: Dutch

Parties

Applicant: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: initially H. Sevenster and M. de Grave, subsequently M. de Grave, C. Wissels and M. Noort, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: T. van Rijn and F. Jimeno Fernández, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2006/932/EC of 14 December 2006 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2006 L 355, p. 96) in so far as it relates to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and more particularly with regard to the financial correction applied to the reimbursement of ineligible expenditure in the framework of the EAGGF, Guarantee Section, for the year 2002 in the amount of EUR 5.67 million.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Order the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.


(1)  OJ C 82, 14.04.2007.