Court of Justice of the European Communities (including Court of First Instance Decisions)

Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 23 October 2019 –
Universität Koblenz-Landau v Commission and EACEA

(Case T‑108/18)

(Action for annulment — Arbitration clause — Mesure Tempus IV — Grant agreements — Identification of the defendant — Partial inadmissibility)

1.      Action for annulment — Admissibility criteria — Action against the author of the contested measure — Exceptions — Measures adopted under delegated powers imputable to the delegating institution — Measures signed by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) — Competence of EACEA to adopt those acts — Action directed against the Commission — Inadmissibility

(Art. 263 TFEU; Council Regulation No 58/2003; Commission Decision 2013/776)

(see paras 20-47)

2.      Judicial proceedings — General Court seised under an arbitration clause — Capacity to be a defendant — Grant agreements concluded in the context of the modernisation of the higher education systems of third countries — Agreements concluded with the Commission — Substitution ex lege of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) in the Commission’s rights and obligations — Action directed against the Commission — Inadmissibility

(Art. 272 TFEU; Council Regulation No 58/2003; Commission Decision 2013/776)

(see paras 49-52)

3.      Judicial proceedings — General Court seised under an arbitration clause — Capacity to be a defendant — Grant agreements concluded in the context of the modernisation of the higher education systems of third countries — Agreements concluded with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency Convention (EACEA) — Action directed against the Commission — Inadmissibility

(Art. 272 TFEU; Council Regulation No 58/2003; Commission Decision 2013/776)

(see paras 58-62)

Re:

Application for the annulment of the EACEA’s decisions of 21 December 2017 (reference OF/2016/0720 EACEA UKOLD) and of 7 February 2018 (reference OF/2016/0720 EACEA UKOLD) seeking the recovery of certain sums paid to the applicant under agreements concluded for the implementation of three projects in the field of higher education.

Operative part

1.

The action is dismissed as inadmissible in so far as it relates to the European Commission.

2.

Universität Koblenz-Landau shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission in the present proceedings.

© European Union
The source of this judgment is the Europa web site. The information on this site is subject to a information found here: Important legal notice. This electronic version is not authentic and is subject to amendment.