18.4.2016

Official Journal of the European Union

C 136/31

(Case T-675/14)(1)

((EAGGF - Guarantee Section - EAGF and EAFRD - Expenditure excluded from financing - Expenditure incurred by the Kingdom of Spain - Flat rate financial corrections - Specific financial corrections - Extension of the financial correction to a period after the communication provided for in Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 885/2006))

(2016/C 136/44)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: M. J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, abogado del Estado)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: I. Galindo Martín and D. Triantafyllou, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the applicant: Republic of Latvia (represented by: I. Kalniņš and D. Pelše, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision 2014/458/EU of 9 July 2014 excluding from EU financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2005 L 205, p. 62) in so far as it concerns certain expenditure incurred by the Kingdom of Spain in the amount of EUR 2 713 208,07.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Dismisses the action;

2.Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.

3.Orders the Republic of Latvia to bear its own costs.

OJ C 388, 3.11.2014.