Judgment_paragraph 9 · Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities (C-373/99)

9Article 8(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (OJ, English Special Edition 1970 (I), p. 218), which defines the principles according to which the Community and the Member States are to ensure the implementation of Community decisions on agricultural intervention financed by the EAGGF and combat fraud and irregularities in relation to those operations, imposes on the Member States the obligation to take the measures necessary to satisfy themselves that the transactions financed by the EAGGF are actually carried out and are executed correctly, to prevent and deal with irregularities and to recover sums lost as a result of irregularities or negligence, even if the specific Community act does not expressly provide for the adoption of particular supervisory measures (see Joined Cases 146/81, 192/81 and 193/81 BayWa [1982] ECR 1503, paragraph 13, Case C-8/88 Germany v Commission [1990] ECR I-2321, paragraphs 16 and 17, and Case C-235/97 France v Commission [1998] ECR I-7555, paragraph 45).

Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities (C-373/99)

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