Judgment_paragraph 1 · Italian Republic v Commission of the European Communities (C-69/95)

1By application lodged at the Court Registry on 10 March 1995, the Italian Republic brought an action under Article 173 of the EC Treaty for partial annulment of Commission Decision 94/871/EC of 21 December 1994 on the clearance of the accounts presented by the Member States in respect of the expenditure for 1991 of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section (OJ 1994 L 352, p. 82, hereinafter ‘the contested decision’), inasmuch as, in determining the total expenditure chargeable to the EAGGF, the Commission made financial adjustments detrimental to the applicant by excluding the sum of LIT 103161493560, corresponding to expenditure on the acquisition of milk quotas under a milk production restructuring programme.