Judgment_paragraph 177 · Kingdom of Spain v Commission of the European Communities (C-349/97)

177It is also necessary to reject the Kingdom of Spain's argument that the corrections imposed by the Commission are arbitrary since in the preceding year, unlike the financial year in question, the financial corrections had not been extended to the olive growers, except in one case. If the Commission does not take financial action in one year on deficiencies established, that does not preclude it from doing so in subsequent years, particularly if those deficiencies have persisted, and newly-established deficiencies can also be taken into account in determining the level of the flat-rate correction (see in particular Case C-44/97 Germany v Commission [1999] ECR I-7177, paragraph 14, and Case C-374/99 Spain v Commission [2001] ECR I-5943, paragraph 26). In the present case, extension of the correction to all the expenditure incurred through the two RPGs in question was justified in view of the seriousness and extent of the irregularities established.

Kingdom of Spain v Commission of the European Communities (C-349/97)

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