42On the basis of those reasons the Commission adopted Implementing Decision 2011/689/EC of 14 October 2011 on excluding from European Union financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the EAGGF, the EAGF and the EAFRD (OJ 2011 L 270, p. 33) (‘the contested decision’). In that decision, in so far as concerns the Italian Republic, the Commission applied, in respect of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 financial years, a financial correction amounting to EUR 70 912 382 in total as a consequence of the shortcomings in checks on milk quotas relating to their late performance identified in the regions of the Abruzzi, Lazio, Marche, Apulia, Sardinia, Calabria, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Valle d’Aosta.