Official Journal of the European Union

C 44/21

(Case T-459/16) (*)

((EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Article 31 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 - Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 - Deficiencies in the IACS - Permanent pastures - Risk for the fund - Document VI/5330/97 - Article 73a(2a) of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 - Article 81(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 - Article 137 of Regulation No 73/2009 - Flat-rate corrections of 25 % and 10 %))

(2019/C 44/26)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: M. Sampol Pucurull, acting as Agent)

Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: D. Triantafyllou, then by: I. Galindo Martín, N. Ruiz García and A. Sauka, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking partial annulment of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1059 of 20 June 2016 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 2016 L 173, p. 59).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1)Annuls Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1059 of 20 June 2016 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), in so far as it concerns the financial correction imposed on the Kingdom of Spain and in so far as it imposes

—a flat-rate correction of 25 % regarding wooded grazing pastures for the claim years 2010 to 2013; and

—a flat-rate correction of 10 % regarding shrub pastures declared by the ‘rearers’ for the claim years 2010 to 2013;

2)Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

3)Orders each party to bear its own costs.

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Language of the case: Spanish.

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