HORTIPLANT CASE
July 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has dismissed a bid by a Spanish garden trade company to overturn a decision by the European Commission to refuse to pay an agreed grant, because of allegations that the firm had been involved in fraud.Hortiplant SAT had claimed that the Commission had no right under EU law to cancel its earlier decision to pay it up to Euro 731,992 is subsidies for the demonstration of a new method of producing seedlings.The company also contested the fraud allegations, claiming that the Commission had erred in its assumption of the ...
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