22.5.2017

Official Journal of the European Union

C 161/29

(Case T-348/16) (<span class="super note-tag">1</span>)

((Arbitration clause - Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development and Demonstration Activities - Minatran contract - Eligible costs - Procedure by default))

(2017/C 161/41)

Language of the case: Greek

Parties

Applicant: Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (Thessaloniki, Greece) (represented by: V. Christianos, lawyer)

Defendant: European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) (represented by: M. Pesquera Alonso and F. Sgritta, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application based on Article 272 TFEU seeking a declaration that the debt in ERCEA debit note numbered 3241606289, of 26 May 2016, that the applicant repay part of the grant which it received for the Minatran project, a sum of EUR 245 525,43, is unfounded, and that that sum corresponds to eligible costs.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1)Declares that the debt in European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) debit note numbered 3241606289 of 26 May 2016, that Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis repay part of the grant which it received for the Minatran project, a sum of EUR 245 525,43, is unfounded, and that that sum corresponds to eligible costs;

2)Declares that partial recovery by way of compensation, to the amount of EUR 132 192,12 of the debt claimed is contrary to grant agreement No 211166 concluded on 18 August 2008 for the implementation of the Minatran project and to Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities.

3)Orders the ERCEA to pay the costs.

(<span class="note">1</span>) OJ C 296, 16.8.2016.