Case T-502/15: Judgment of the General Court of 19 October 2017 — Spain v Commission (EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Spain — Flat-rate financial corrections — Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EU) No 1306/2013 — Obligation to state reasons — Burden of proof — Proportionality — Rights of defence)
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Judgment of the General Court of 19 October 2017 — Spain v Commission
(Case T-502/15) ( 1 )
‛(EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Expenditure incurred by Spain — Flat-rate financial corrections — Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EU) No 1306/2013 — Obligation to state reasons — Burden of proof — Proportionality — Rights of defence)’2017/C 412/34Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by L. Banciella Rodríguez-Miñón, and subsequently by M. Sampol Pucurull, A. Gavela Llopis and V. Ester Casas, acting as Agents)
Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by J. Guillem Carrau and D. Triantafyllou, and subsequently by D. Triantafyllou and I. Galindo Martín, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1119 of 22 June 2015 excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2015 L 182, p. 39) as regards certain corrections made in respect of Catalonia, on the one hand, and the Canaries, on the other hand.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the application;
2.
Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs and to pay the costs of the European Commission.
( 1 ) OJ C 346, 19.10.2015.
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